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

by Judith Perkins (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Judith Perkins is Professor of Classics and Humanities at Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut.