Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity: Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment.
Edited By Stanimir Panayotov, Andra Jugănaru, Anastasia Theologou, István Perczel (Routledge, 2024).
This collective volume is the result of a conference Dis/embodiment and Im/materiality: Uncovering the Body, Gender and Sexuality in Philosophies of Late Antiquity, by which CEU honored Marianne Sághy (1961‒2018), our late faculty colleague and teacher at the CEU Department of Medieval Studies. The conference was co-organized in June 2019 by CRS faculty member István Perczel and some of his students.
Bringing together gender studies, late antique philosophy, patristics, history of asceticism, and history of Indian philosophy, this interdisciplinary volume examines the notions of dis/embodiment and im/materiality in late antique and early Christian culture and thought. The book’s geographical scope extends beyond the ancient Mediterranean, providing comparative perspectives from Late Antiquity in the Near East and South Asia. It offers critical interpretations of late antique scholarly objects of inquiry, exploring close readings of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in their historical context. These fascinating studies engage scholars from different fields and research traditions with one another, and reveal both change and continuity in the perception and social role of gender, sexuality, body, and soul in this period.
See the publisher's page here.
Book launch at CEU on 12 February 2024