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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Other Authors: Alciati, Roberto (Contributor), Arcari, Luca (Contributor), Carnevale, Laura (Contributor), Constantinou, Stavroula (Contributor), Dell'Isola, Maria (Contributor, Editor), Høgel, Christian (Contributor), Narro, Ángel (Contributor), Pizzone, Aglae (Contributor), Vuković, Marijana (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2025]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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