Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity

Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity

Edited by: Maria Dell’Isola

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.  

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110781120

eBook ISBN: 9783110781120

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110781045

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Frontmatter

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Table of Contents Open Access

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Authors Open Access

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Introduction Maria Dell’Isola Open Access

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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 Laura Carnevale Open Access

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A Male Colonization of a Female Visionary Body: The “Montanist” Prophetess in Tertullian’s On the Soul 9,4 Luca Arcari Open Access

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Women Facing Martyrdom: The Interplay Between Temporality and Social and Gender Roles in Early Christianity Maria Dell’Isola Open Access

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Section 2 Re-writing Women’s Authority: Tradition, Transmission, and Reception of Female Sainthood Across Time and Space
Emulating Thecla: Mygdonia, Xanthippe, and Polyxena Different Conceptions of Conversion and Religious Life Ángel Narro Open Access

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Husband as a “Religious Other”: Family Discord from Early Christian Apology to Medieval Hagiography Marijana Vuković Open Access

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The Metaphrastic Female Saint: Time and Temporality in Rewritten Lives of Women Saints Christian Høgel Open Access

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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 Roberto Alciati Open Access

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Mothers’ Time: The Temporality of Motherhood in the Life of Martha and the Life of Symeon Stylite the Younger Stavroula Constantinou Open Access

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Girls, Interrupted: Synchronicity and Genealogy in Tzetzes’ Hypomnema for Saint Lucy Aglae Pizzone Open Access

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Index Open Access

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