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No Friendly Letters: Augustine’s Correspondence with Women

  • maureen tilley
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The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies
This chapter is in the book The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies
© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. gender
  6. The Lady Appears: Materializations of ‘‘Woman’’ in Early Monastic Literature 25
  7. No Friendly Letters: Augustine’s Correspondence with Women 40
  8. On Mary’s Voice: Gendered Words in Syriac Marian Tradition 63
  9. Is There a Harlot in This Text?: Hagiography and the Grotesque 87
  10. Macrina’s Tattoo 103
  11. asceticism
  12. Rereading the Jovinianist Controversy: Asceticism and Clerical Authority in Late Ancient Christianity 119
  13. The Dark Side of Landscape: Ideology and Power in the Christian Myth of the Desert 136
  14. Monks and Other Animals 150
  15. historiography
  16. Archives in the Fiction: Rabbinic Historiography and Church History 175
  17. How to Read Heresiology 193
  18. Ascetic Practice and the Genealogy of Heresy: Problems in Modern Scholarship and Ancient Textual Representation 213
  19. History, Fiction, and Figuralism in Book 8 of Augustine’s Confessions 237
  20. Hellenism and Historiography: Gregory of Nazianzus and Julian in Dialogue 258
  21. Knowing Theodoret: Text and Self 278
  22. Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome 298
  23. Bibliography 317
  24. Contributors 355
  25. Index of Modern Authors 357
  26. Index of Citations to Ancient Authors and Scriptures 360
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386681-004

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. gender
  6. The Lady Appears: Materializations of ‘‘Woman’’ in Early Monastic Literature 25
  7. No Friendly Letters: Augustine’s Correspondence with Women 40
  8. On Mary’s Voice: Gendered Words in Syriac Marian Tradition 63
  9. Is There a Harlot in This Text?: Hagiography and the Grotesque 87
  10. Macrina’s Tattoo 103
  11. asceticism
  12. Rereading the Jovinianist Controversy: Asceticism and Clerical Authority in Late Ancient Christianity 119
  13. The Dark Side of Landscape: Ideology and Power in the Christian Myth of the Desert 136
  14. Monks and Other Animals 150
  15. historiography
  16. Archives in the Fiction: Rabbinic Historiography and Church History 175
  17. How to Read Heresiology 193
  18. Ascetic Practice and the Genealogy of Heresy: Problems in Modern Scholarship and Ancient Textual Representation 213
  19. History, Fiction, and Figuralism in Book 8 of Augustine’s Confessions 237
  20. Hellenism and Historiography: Gregory of Nazianzus and Julian in Dialogue 258
  21. Knowing Theodoret: Text and Self 278
  22. Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome 298
  23. Bibliography 317
  24. Contributors 355
  25. Index of Modern Authors 357
  26. Index of Citations to Ancient Authors and Scriptures 360
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