Life by Catherine Michael Chin - 9780520400689

LifeThe Natural History of an Early Christian Universe\nAuthor(s): Catherine Michael Chin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of California Press, United States\nImprint: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520400689, 978-0520400689\nSynopsis\nA vivid and intimate glimpse of ancient life under the sway of cosmic and spiritual forces that the modern world has forgotten.\nLifeimmerses the reader in the cosmic sea of existences that made up the late ancient Mediterranean world. Loosely structured around events in the biography of one early Christian writer and traveler, this book weaves together the philosophical, religious, sensory, and scientific worlds of the later Roman Empire to tell the story of how human lives were lived under different natural and spiritual laws than those we now know today.\n This book takes a highly literary and sensory approach to its subject, evoking an imagined experience of an ancient natural and supernatural world, rather than merely explai.