Amputation Metaphors and the Rhetoric of Exile: Purity and Pollution in Late Antique Christianity

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2016

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HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société)

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Archives ouvertes

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Centre pour la communication scientifique directe

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Speaking Language and languages--Rhetoric Environmental pollution Chemical pollution Pollution--Control Contamination of environment Biography--Exile

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Eric Fournier, « Amputation Metaphors and the Rhetoric of Exile: Purity and Pollution in Late Antique Christianity », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.3b3d07...

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As episcopal banishment became the normative sentence for bishops in the 4 th century, a rhetoric of exile came to express the symbolic understanding of this measure through amputation metaphors. Blending three older strands (philosophical, religious, and political) of medical metaphors, this discourse continued a traditional concern for purity and pollution in Roman religion.

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