The Cultural Turn In Late Ancient Studies

by Martin, Dale B.; Miller, Patricia Cox

• ISBN13: 9780822334224
• ISBN10: 0822334224
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This collection's foci--gender, asceticism, and historiography--outline the very engines of the cultural turn in the discipline and show early Christian studies at its most engaged with current trends throughout the humanities."--Derek Krueger, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and author of "Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
DALE B. MARTIN
Introduction	1	(24)
GENDER
DAVID BRAKKE
The Lady Appears: Materializations of "Woman" in Early Monastic Literature	25	(15)
MAUREEN A. TILLEY
No Friendly Letters: Augustine's Correspondence with Women	40	(23)
SUSAN ASHBROOK HARVEY
On Mary's Voice: Gendered Words in Syriac Marian Tradition	63	(24)
PATRICIA COX MILLER
Is There a Harlot in This Text?: Hagiography and the Grotesque	87	(19)
VIRGINIA BURRUS
Macrina's Tattoo	106	(13)
ASCETICISM
DAVID G. HUNTER
Rereading the Jovinianist Controversy: Asceticism and Clerical Authority in Late Ancient Christianity	119	(17)
JAMES E. GOEHRING
The Dark Side of Landscape: Ideology and Power in the Christian Myth of the Desert	136	(14)
BLAKE LEYERLE
Monks and Other Animals	150	(25)
HISTORIOGRAPHY
DANIEL BOYARIN
Archives in the Fiction: Rabbinic Historiography and Church History	175	(18)
AVERIL CAMERON
How to Read Heresiology	193	(20)
TERESA M. SHAW
Ascetic Practice and the Genealogy of Heresy: Problems in Modern Scholarship and Ancient Textual Representation	213	(24)
MARK VESSEY
History, Fiction, and Figuralism in Book 8 of Augustine's Confessions	237	(21)
SUSANNA ELM
Hellenism and Historiography: Gregory of Nazianzus and Julian in Dialogue	258	(20)
PHILIP ROUSSEAU
Knowing Theodoret: Text and Self	278	(20)
DENNIS E. TROUT
Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome	298	(19)
Bibliography	317	(38)
Contributors	355	(2)
Index of Modern Authors	357	(3)
Index of Citations to Ancient Authors and Scriptures	360