Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion's Cyprus

by Virginia Burrus

Book Overview

Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography.

In Jerome's Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century saint briefly encounters the ruins of an earthquake-toppled city and a haunted garden in Cyprus. From these two fragmentary passages, Virginia Burrus delivers a series of sweeping meditations on our experience of place and the more-than-human worlds--the earth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022682456X
• ISBN13: 9780226824567
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"