HIST 323 Lecture 4: History 323 Notes Mar. 07-09
4 Aug 2019
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Peter brown"s body and city = transitional chapter: shutting down of the sexual body = christianity, new approach to abstinence as a positive/aggressive act, discusses relation between soul/body/mind, pg. = not good and lacked refinement: mind = to harness body for the sake of the family and city (city here means large array of secularization, pg. Therefore, constant control/constraint on oneself by oneself: sin = soul in constant opposition. Soul in relation to world is marked by discomfort and possibility of extremes: social honour (shame, how you look in the eyes of the world, are you a pornai or not, spiritual (sin) Idea of the self, being susceptible to deep self-inflicted injury. They began to transform roman concepts in different ways. Augustine of hippo: clarke"s essay is useful here, his confessions = one of the most frequently read books in the last, paved the way for the autobiographical genre, most important father of the church.
