
Published online:
21 November 2012
Published in print:
11 October 2012
Online ISBN:
9780199971046
Print ISBN:
9780195336931
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Capgras: A General Condition Capgras: A General Condition
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Touching Sight Touching Sight
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Nature and Relation Nature and Relation
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Late Antique Animism Late Antique Animism
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Stone Objects Stone Objects
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Looking at Objects with Animism Looking at Objects with Animism
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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Note Note
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Works Cited Works Cited
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Chapter
30 Object Relations: Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer
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Glenn Peers
Glenn Peers
Art History, Syracuse University
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Glenn Peers, Professor of Art History, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
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970–993
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Published:21 November 2012
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Peers, Glenn, ' Object Relations: Theorizing the Late Antique Viewer', in Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, Oxford Handbooks (2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 21 Nov. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195336931.013.0030, accessed 14 May 2025.
Abstract
This article examines texts and objects made during the late antique period (c.200-c.750), in order to make a case for a deeply relational sympathy between late antique Christians and their objects. It discusses the extension of that relation into the material world around those people, and in so doing, argues that distinctions among humanity, objects, and world were sometimes blurred or masked. The natural world, thus provided insight into God's immanence, renewed after the Incarnation of Christ, and even physical apprehension of it.
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