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 female authority, considered against the wider background of Christian ideals of holiness between early Christianity and Byzantium.
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Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity
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Byzantine HistoryTable of contents
- 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
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