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Acknowledgments | ||
Abbreviations | ||
Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
What Is Asceticism? | 5 | |
Fasting in Sources on Early Desert Monasticism | 10 | |
Bodily Practice and Ascetic Theory | 17 | |
Ch. 2 | Philosophy of the Body and Medicine of the Soul: Ethics, Diet, and Sexuality in Late Antiquity | 27 |
The Moralist Tradition | 27 | |
Diet and the Physiology of Sexual Desire | 53 | |
Ancient Medical Representations of the Female Body | 64 | |
Ch. 3 | The Physiology of Ascetic Fasting | 79 |
Basil of Ancyra | 81 | |
Gregory of Nyssa | 92 | |
Jerome | 96 | |
John Cassian | 112 | |
Food Deprivation and Sexual Function | 124 | |
Ch. 4 | The Mother of All Vice: Gluttony and the Health of Body and Soul | 129 |
Gluttony in John Chrysostom's Homilies | 131 | |
Gluttony and the Passions of the Soul in Evagrius of Pontus | 139 | |
Abstinence and the Control of Passion | 159 | |
Ch. 5 | Fasting and the Return to Paradise | 161 |
Humanity in the "Golden Age" | 164 | |
Christian Asceticism and the Return to Paradise | 171 | |
The Body of Paradise | 214 | |
Ch. 6 | Fasting and the Female Body | 220 |
Ascetic Women and Fasting in Early Christian Sources | 221 | |
Female Flesh and Future Body | 252 | |
Bibliography | 255 | |
Index | 285 |
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