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The cultural turn in late ancient studies : gender, asceticism, and historiography / edited by Dale B. Martin and Patricia Cox Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Christianity--Influence.
- Christianity.
- Civilization, Western.
- Sex.
- Asceticism.
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Collection of essays that focuses on questions of gender and culture in early Christianity.
- Contents:
- The lady appears : materializations of "woman" in early monastic literature / David Brakke
- No friendly letters : Augustine's correspondence with women / Maureen A. Tilley
- On Mary's voice : gendered words in Syriac Marian tradition / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
- Is there a harlot in this text? : hagiography and the grotesque / Patricia Cox Miller
- Macrina's tattoo / Virginia Burrus
- Rereading the Jovinianist controversy : asceticism and clerical authority in late ancient Christianity / David G. Hunter
- The dark side of landscape : ideology and power in the Christian myth of the desert / James E. Goehring
- Monks and other animals / Blake Leyerle
- Archives in the fiction : rabbinic historiography and church history / Daniel Boyarin
- How to read heresiology / Averil Cameron
- Ascetic practice and the genealogy of heresy : problems in modern scholarship and ancient textual representation / Teresa M. Shaw
- History, fiction, and figuralism in Book 8 of Augustine's Confessions / Mark Vessey
- Hellenism and historiography : Gregory of Nazianzus and Julian in dialogue / Susanna Elm
- Knowing Theodoret : text and self / Philip Rousseau
- Damasus and the invention of early Christian Rome / Dennis E. Trout.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-354) and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8668-2
- OCLC:
- 827745358
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