Norm and Exercise
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The Christian ascetic way of life clustered mainly around the Mediterranean and roughly covered the period between 350 and 800. It is determined by norm and exercise. But what are norm and exercise with regard to Christian asceticism? Whatever renunciations may be required in order to practice a given ascetic regimen, no goal can be achieved without a specific technique (or a set of exercises) and without following a principle of order (or a norm). This implies an intense dialectic which sometimes seems to resolve into a perfect identity: regula et vita , "rule and life", or, in a more neutral language, "norm and exercise". This set of papers addresses this crucial point and thereby challenges the usual chronological as well as geographical divisions in the history of early Christianity. As a result, the categories of norm and exercise are presented as a new solution to put the available sources in order.
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- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- (Roberto Alciati) Norm and Exercise: A Useful Pair of Lenses - An Introduction
- PART I: WHAT IS ASCETICISM?
- (Gian Antonio Gilli) What Are Renouncers Renouncing? Asceticism and Body Map
- (Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli) 'A More Refined Device': Franz Overbeck's Ascetological Foundations
- PART II: THE NORM AND ITS FORMS
- (Adele Monaci Castagno) The Life of Saint Antony: A Monastic Rule in the Guise of a Tale? (Gr. Naz. Or. 21,5)
- (Sylvain Jean Gabriel Sanchez) Le mysticisme de Priscillien: exercices et pratiques spirituelles
- (Pablo C. Díaz) Discipline and Punishment in 7th Century Visigothic Monasticism: The Contrast between Isidore's and Fructuosus's Rules
- PART III: THE BODY AND ITS EXERCISES
- (Veit Rosenberger ┼) Divine Diets: Food and Drink of Early Monks
- (Alessandro Rossi) Peut-on parler d'une ascèse notamment circoncellionique ?
- (Chiara Cremonesi) From Philoctetes to Symeon: Comparing in Order to Distinguish
- (Almut-Barbara Renger / Alexandra Stellmacher) The Making of the Stylite in the Interplay of Text, Image and Performance: On the Exercise of Saint Simeon
- (Conrad Leyser) Genealogies of Asceticism
- INDEX LOCORUM
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
