Dale B. Martin / Patricia MillerThe Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies
Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography
Herausgeber: Martin, Dale B; Miller, Patricia Cox
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Dale B. Martin 1
Gender
The Lady Appears: Materializations of "Woman" in Early Monastic Literature
/ David Brakke 25
No Friendly Letters: Augustine's Correspondence with Women / Maureen A.
Tilley 40
On Mary's Voice: Gendered Words in Syriac Marian Tradition / Susan Ashbrook
Harvey 63
Is There a Harlot in This Text?: Hagiography and the Grotesque / Patricia
Cox Miller 87
Macrina's Tattoo / Virginia Burrus 103
Aestheticism
Rereading the Jovinianist Controversy: Aestheticism and Clerical Authority
in Late Ancient Christianity / David G. Hunter 119
The Dark Side of Landscape: Ideology and Power in the Christian Myth of the
Desert / James E. Goehring 136
Monks and Other Animals / Blake Leyerle 150
Historiography
Archives in the Fiction: Rabbinic Historiography and Church History /
Daniel Boyarin 175
How to Read Heresiology / Averil Cameron 193
Ascetic Practice and the Genealogy of Heresy: Problems in Modern
Scholarship and Ancient Textual Representation / Teresa M. Shaw 213
History, Fiction, and Figuralism in Book 8 of Augustine's Confessions /
Mark Vessey 237
Hellenism and Historiography: Gregory of Nazianzus and Julian in Dialogue /
Susanna Elm 258
Knowing Theodoret: Text and Self / Philip Rousseau 278
Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome / Dennis E. Trout 298
Bibliography 317
Contributors 355
Index of Modern Authors 357
Index of Citations to Ancient Authors and Scriptures 360
