{"product_id":"the-face-of-the-dead-and-the-early-christian-world-paperback","title":"The Face of the Dead and the Early Christian World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicolas Bock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eValentina Cantone\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eClaudia Corneli\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Brown has described the position of holy bodies in the Early Christian period as a \u003ci\u003eplace between Earth and Heaven.\u003c\/i\u003e The principal aim of this book is to deal with precisely this intersection between two worlds expressed by the Dead, and in particular by their images and their faces. \u003c\/p\u003e The first part of this book looks into the portrait and its function, and the reason for which Late Antiquity, following a custom it inherited from previous eras, covered itself with individual images of the deceased. As in previous eras, the portrait appears, above all, to be an attempt to express the individual in his or her entirety; the techniques and \u003ci\u003einstruments\u003c\/i\u003e perfected in the course of the the 3rd century, however, lead to divergent formal and conceptual results.  The second question, answered more briefly, deals with the perception and representation of the dead body as a whole, defined by David Le Breton as \u003ci\u003ela souche identitaire de l'homme.\u003c\/i\u003e The question asked is a fundamental one, since we are confronted with humanity itself after its passage to that which lies beyond: does the body become just a memory or does it preserve the real presence of the person who once existed? \n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48551412793593,"sku":"9788883349942","price":70.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/XmaI6dahuo9788883349942.webp?v=1781907722","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-face-of-the-dead-and-the-early-christian-world-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}