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The cultural turn in late ancient studies : gender, asceticism, and historiography / edited by Dale B. Martin and Patricia Cox Miller.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Martin, Dale B., 1954-
Miller, Patricia Cox, 1947-
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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