The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era

by JudithPerkins (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $7.20

  Explores how Christian narrative representation in the early Empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the self as sufferer - and why forms of suffering such as martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important.

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $42.03

  Explores how Christian narrative representation in the early Empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the self as sufferer - and why forms of suffering such as martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important.