History, Fiction, and Figuralism in Book 8 of Augustine’s Confessions

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