東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Brain and soul in late antiquity.

Wright, Jessica Louise.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Brain and soul in late antiquity.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Brain and soul in late antiquity./
Author:	Wright, Jessica Louise.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	382 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International78-04A.
Subject:	Religious history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10167499
ISBN:	9781369218480

Brain and soul in late antiquity.
Wright, Jessica Louise.

Brain and soul in late antiquity. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 382 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2016.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation examines conceptualisations of the brain (Greek: ϵγκϵϕαλoς; Latin: cerebrum) in Christian texts from the fourth and fifth centuries CE. While there has been significant interest in the body and in the intersections of medicine and religion at this period, no study has yet focused upon early Christian understandings of the brain. Yet, the brain was critical to formulations of human nature and human identity in late antiquity. At a period when intellectuals and religious leaders were pressed to articulate and to defend definitions of the human soul as distinct from, if entangled with, the human body, the brain proved to be both a fruitful and a troubling conceptual resource: fruitful insofar as it condensed the paradoxes of the human being, positioned between heaven and earth, material and immaterial spheres, and troubling insofar as it threatened to confine the soul, even to render the soul unnecessary. Through close readings of Christian texts, both theoretical and pastoral in orientation, this dissertation not only highlights the elements of medical theory with which early Christian authors were familiar, but also draws out the contemporary concerns which shaped and were shaped by engagement with the brain. It conclusions are fourfold: (1) The brain represented in condensed form the paradoxical status of the body within early Christianity. (2) Brain health provided preachers with a way of talking about spiritual and social wellbeing. (3) Organic mental disorders became a stock model for affective and doctrinal deviance. (4) Theological concern to find a model of psychic healthcare which might incorporate but not privilege the body shaped late antique and medieval conceptualisations of the brain.

ISBN: 9781369218480Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122824
Religious history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Brain

Brain and soul in late antiquity.
LDR:03140nmm a2200433 4500 001 2285277
005 20211129133326.5
008 220723s2016 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781369218480
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI10167499
035 $a (MiAaPQ)princeton:11858
035 $a AAI10167499
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Wright, Jessica Louise. $3 3564570
245 1 0 $a Brain and soul in late antiquity.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2016
300 $a 382 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04, Section: A.
500 $a Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
500 $a Advisor: Holmes, Brooke.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2016.
506 $a This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
506 $a This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 $a This dissertation examines conceptualisations of the brain (Greek: ϵγκϵϕαλoς; Latin: cerebrum) in Christian texts from the fourth and fifth centuries CE. While there has been significant interest in the body and in the intersections of medicine and religion at this period, no study has yet focused upon early Christian understandings of the brain. Yet, the brain was critical to formulations of human nature and human identity in late antiquity. At a period when intellectuals and religious leaders were pressed to articulate and to defend definitions of the human soul as distinct from, if entangled with, the human body, the brain proved to be both a fruitful and a troubling conceptual resource: fruitful insofar as it condensed the paradoxes of the human being, positioned between heaven and earth, material and immaterial spheres, and troubling insofar as it threatened to confine the soul, even to render the soul unnecessary. Through close readings of Christian texts, both theoretical and pastoral in orientation, this dissertation not only highlights the elements of medical theory with which early Christian authors were familiar, but also draws out the contemporary concerns which shaped and were shaped by engagement with the brain. It conclusions are fourfold: (1) The brain represented in condensed form the paradoxical status of the body within early Christianity. (2) Brain health provided preachers with a way of talking about spiritual and social wellbeing. (3) Organic mental disorders became a stock model for affective and doctrinal deviance. (4) Theological concern to find a model of psychic healthcare which might incorporate but not privilege the body shaped late antique and medieval conceptualisations of the brain.
590 $a School code: 0181.
650 4 $a Religious history. $3 2122824
650 4 $a Science history. $3 2144850
650 4 $a Classical studies. $3 2122826
653 $a Brain
653 $a Early christianity
653 $a Mental health and disease
653 $a Mind
653 $a Soul
653 $a Ventricular localisation
690 $a 0320
690 $a 0434
690 $a 0585
710 2 $a Princeton University. $b Classics. $3 3288269
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 78-04A.
790 $a 0181
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2016
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10167499