Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity /
This collective volume investigates the connection between women's holiness and the notion of time from a diachronic perspective. By looking at temporality as intertwined with the construction of social and gendered roles, the volume analyses narratives related to the varying articulation of fe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Authors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Female Authority, Gender Roles, and Religious Experience and Practices in Early Christianity
- A Portrayal of "Gendered" Authority: Mary of Cassobola Across Time and Space in Two Ps.Ignatian Epistles
- A Male Colonization of a Female Visionary Body: The "Montanist" Prophetess in Tertullian's On the Soul 9,4
- Women Facing Martyrdom: The Interplay Between Temporality and Social and Gender Roles in Early Christianity
- Section 2 Re-writing Women's Authority: Tradition, Transmission, and Reception of Female Sainthood Across Time and Space
- Emulating Thecla: Mygdonia, Xanthippe, and Polyxena
- Husband as a "Religious Other": Family Discord from Early Christian Apology to Medieval Hagiography
- The Metaphrastic Female Saint: Time and Temporality in Rewritten Lives of Women Saints
- Section 3 Women, Saints, and Time: The Construction of Gendered Temporality in the Lives of Holy Women
- Unlike Their Mothers: The Struggle Against Time of the Two Melanias
- Mothers' Time: The Temporality of Motherhood in the Life of Martha and the Life of Symeon Stylite the Younger
- Girls, Interrupted: Synchronicity and Genealogy in Tzetzes' Hypomnema for Saint Lucy
- Index