Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity

by: Dell'Isola, M.

Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity
Edited by: Maria Dell?Isola

About this book

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.

Table of contents
Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Authors

Introduction

Maria Dell?Isola
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
A Male Colonization of a Female Visionary Body: The “Montanist” Prophetess in Tertullian?s On the Soul 9,4

Luca Arcari
Women Facing Martyrdom: The Interplay Between Temporality and Social and Gender Roles in Early Christianity

Maria Dell?Isola
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
Husband as a “Religious Other”: Family Discord from Early Christian Apology to Medieval Hagiography

Marijana Vuković
The Metaphrastic Female Saint: Time and Temporality in Rewritten Lives of Women Saints

Christian Høgel
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
Mothers? Time: The Temporality of Motherhood in the Life of Martha and the Life of Symeon Stylite the Younger

Stavroula Constantinou
Girls, Interrupted: Synchronicity and Genealogy in Tzetzes? Hypomnema for Saint Lucy

Aglae Pizzone
Index

Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity

by: Dell'Isola, M.

• ISBN-13: 9783110781045 / 978-3-11-078104-5
• ISBN-03: 3110781042 / 3-11-078104-5
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2025