Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Authors VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Section 1 Female Authority, Gender Roles, and Religious Experience and Practices in Early Christianity
6. A Portrayal of “Gendered” Authority: Mary of Cassobola Across Time and Space in Two Ps.Ignatian Epistles 15
7. A Male Colonization of a Female Visionary Body: The “Montanist” Prophetess in Tertullian’s On the Soul 9,4 29
8. Women Facing Martyrdom: The Interplay Between Temporality and Social and Gender Roles in Early Christianity 43
9. Section 2 Re-writing Women’s Authority: Tradition, Transmission, and Reception of Female Sainthood Across Time and Space
10. Emulating Thecla: Mygdonia, Xanthippe, and Polyxena 61
11. Husband as a “Religious Other”: Family Discord from Early Christian Apology to Medieval Hagiography 83
12. The Metaphrastic Female Saint: Time and Temporality in Rewritten Lives of Women Saints 101
13. Section 3 Women, Saints, and Time: The Construction of Gendered Temporality in the Lives of Holy Women
14. Unlike Their Mothers: The Struggle Against Time of the Two Melanias 119
15. Mothers’ Time: The Temporality of Motherhood in the Life of Martha and the Life of Symeon Stylite the Younger 135
16. Girls, Interrupted: Synchronicity and Genealogy in Tzetzes’ Hypomnema for Saint Lucy 145
17. Index 159