Women, too, were blessed : the portrayal of women in early Christian Armenian texts / David Zakarian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zakarian, David, 1979- author.

Contributor:

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Armenian texts and studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 4.

Armenian texts and studies, 2405-7045 ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian women--Religious life--Armenia--History--Sources.

Christian women.

Christian literature, Armenian--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Armenian.

Church history.

Christian women--Religious life.

History.

Armenia--Church history.

Armenia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

2 The Fifth Century p. 2

3 Two Traditions of the Christianisation of Armenia p. 7

4 Previous Research p. 8

5 Nature of the Texts: Representation versus Lived Reality p. 10

6 In Comparison with Other Traditions p. 17

8 Brief Overview of the Primary Sources p. 22

1 Women in Pre-Christian Arsacid Armenia p. 41

2 Armenian Society in the First-Fourth Centuries CE p. 42

3 The Institution of the Family p. 45

4 Customary Law p. 55

5 The Pre-Christian Religion of Armenia p. 58

Part 2 Representation

2 The Representation of St Sanduxt in The Martyrdom of St Thaddeus and Sanduxt p. 69

2 St Thecla as a Literary Model for Armenian Authors p. 71

3 The Representation of Sanduxt p. 72

3 Women in Agat'angelos' History of the Armenians p. 79

2 The Literary Aspects of the Text p. 80

3 The Prologue and the Life p. 83

4 The Representation of Hrip'sime and Her Companions p. 89

5 The Teaching p. 100

6 X̌osroviduxt and Ašxen p. 102

4 The Early Armenian Church and Female Asceticism p. 105

2 Female Asceticism in the Greco-Syriac Sources p. 106

3 Female Asceticism in the Fifth-Century Armenian Texts p. 110

Part 3 Lived Reality

5 Women in Society: Spaces, Roles, and Everyday Life p. 137

2 Physical Spaces p. 137

3 Women as Educators p. 143

4 Glimpses of Everyday Life p. 152

6 Marriage in Early Christian Armenia p. 156

2 Different Traditions p. 156

3 Local Customs p. 158

4 Marriage Patterns of the Armenian Elite p. 171

5 Widowhood p. 176

6 Women in the Sahapivan Canons: Additional Remarks p. 177

7 Queenship in Arsacid Armenia p. 179

2 The Queen's Title p. 180

3 Symbolic Attributes of Authority p. 181

4 The Queen's Authority p. 185

5 The Exercise of Power p. 189

6 Court Intrigues p. 191

8 Violence against Women p. 194

2 The System of Honour and Shame p. 195

3 The Epic Histories p. 196

4 Domestic Violence p. 204.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Zakarian, David, 1979- Women, too, were blessed

ISBN:

9789004445031

900444503X

Publisher Number:

40030354816

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