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 Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2005. |
| Description | 364 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-354) and indexes. |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| LCCN | 2004019863 |
| ISBN | 0822334119 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822334118 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822334224 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822334224 (pbk. : alk. paper) |