"The Suffering Self" is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study
of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith
Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early
empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding -
the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and
social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering
like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to early
Christians.
This study crosses the boundaries between ancient history and the
study of early Christianity, seeing Christian representation in the
context of the Greco-Roman world. She draws parallels with
suffering heroines in Greek novels and in martyr acts and examines
representations in medical and philosophical texts.
Judith Perkins' controversial study is important reading for all
those interested in ancient society, or in the history of
Christianity.
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