@inbook{ec80ef6e2cdc4d0cb19a3ef42f5cead4,
title = "Materiality and the Sensation of Sin in Late Antique Pre-Baptismal Rituals: The Short-Lived “Rite of the Cilicium”",
abstract = "A key feature of Christian initiation rituals in late antiquity were rituals which effected the candidate's rejection of sin and the influence of the devil in order that they might be freed to give their allegiance to Christ. These took place during the final intense period of preparation during Lent as well as immediately preceding the immersion in the baptismal font. At the end of the fourth and early fifth century in (Antioch or) Mopsuestia, in Constantinople and in North Africa a new element was briefly added to the ritual - the candidate stood or knelt on the cilicium, a coarse cloth of goat's hair. In re-examining the rituals in which the cilicium was used, and the theological explanations offered, this paper suggests how the significance of acts of renunciation was reinforced by the physical, sensory, experience of this cloth.",
keywords = "614 Theology, Church History, Liturgical History, Ritual Studies, Early Christian literature, Baptism, Material Culture Studies",
author = "Juliette Day",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
language = "English",
isbn = "978-80-210-9979-1",
volume = "8",
series = "Convivium",
publisher = "MASARYKOVA UNIVERZITA",
pages = "115--127",
editor = "Dole{\v z}alov{\'a}, {Kl{\'a}ra } and Foletti, {Ivan } and Krav{\v c}{\'i}kov{\'a}, {Katar{\'i}na } and Tich{\'a}, {Pavla }",
booktitle = "Means of Christian Conversion in Late Antiquity",
address = "Czech Republic",
edition = "iss. Supplementum 3",
}