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

Other author Martin, Dale B., 1954-
Other author Miller, Patricia Cox, 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Description364 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
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Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [317]-354) and indexes.
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LCCN 2004019863
ISBN0822334119 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822334118 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822334224 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822334224 (pbk. : alk. paper)