Beschreibung:
Patricia Cox Miller is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion Emerita at Syracuse University. She is author of five books, including The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
IntroductionChapter 1. Animals and Figuration: The Case of BirdsChapter 2. The Pensivity of Animals, I: ZoomorphismChapter 3. The Pensivity of Animals, II: AnthropomorphismChapter 4. Wild Animals: Desert Ascetics and Their CompanionsChapter 5. Small Things: The Vibrant Materiality of Tiny CreaturesAfterwordAppendix: Ancient Christian and Other AuthorsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgment