{"product_id":"the-cultural-turn-in-late-ancient-studies-9780822334224","title":"The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollection of essays that focuses on questions of gender and culture in early Christianity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies \u003c\/i\u003eare all significant in their own rights, and collectively they provide an excellent portrait of the ‘state of the art.’ This book both charts the history of a generation of scholarship and points forward toward the next steps in the critical, theoretically inflected engagement with the cultural world of late antiquity.”—Elizabeth Castelli, Associate Professor of Religion at Barnard College and author of \u003ci\u003eMartyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This collection’s foci—gender, asceticism, and historiography—outline the very engines of the cultural turn in the discipline and show early Christian studies at its most engaged with current trends throughout the humanities.”—Derek Krueger, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and author of \u003ci\u003eWriting and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Dale B. Martin 1\u003cbr\u003e Gender \u003cbr\u003e The Lady Appears: Materializations of \"Woman\" in Early Monastic Literature \/ David Brakke 25\u003cbr\u003e No Friendly Letters: Augustine's Correspondence with Women \/ Maureen A. Tilley 40\u003cbr\u003e On Mary's Voice: Gendered Words in Syriac Marian Tradition \/ Susan Ashbrook Harvey 63\u003cbr\u003e Is There a Harlot in This Text?: Hagiography and the Grotesque \/ Patricia Cox Miller 87\u003cbr\u003e Macrina's Tattoo \/ Virginia Burrus 103\u003cbr\u003e Aestheticism \u003cbr\u003e Rereading the Jovinianist Controversy: Aestheticism and Clerical Authority in Late Ancient Christianity \/ David G. Hunter 119\u003cbr\u003e The Dark Side of Landscape: Ideology and Power in the Christian Myth of the Desert \/ James E. Goehring 136\u003cbr\u003e Monks and Other Animals \/ Blake Leyerle 150\u003cbr\u003e Historiography \u003cbr\u003e Archives in the Fiction: Rabbinic Historiography and Church History \/ Daniel Boyarin 175\u003cbr\u003e How to Read Heresiology \/ Averil Cameron 193\u003cbr\u003e Ascetic Practice and the Genealogy of Heresy: Problems in Modern Scholarship and Ancient Textual Representation \/ Teresa M. Shaw 213\u003cbr\u003e History, Fiction, and Figuralism in Book 8 of Augustine's Confessions \/ Mark Vessey 237\u003cbr\u003e Hellenism and Historiography: Gregory of Nazianzus and Julian in Dialogue \/ Susanna Elm 258\u003cbr\u003e Knowing Theodoret: Text and Self \/ Philip Rousseau 278\u003cbr\u003e Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome \/ Dennis E. Trout 298\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 317\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 355\u003cbr\u003e Index of Modern Authors 357\u003cbr\u003e Index of Citations to Ancient Authors and Scriptures 360","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406036738391,"sku":"9780822334224","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822334224.jpg?v=1730494325","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cultural-turn-in-late-ancient-studies-9780822334224","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}