Violated and Transcended Bodies: Gender, Martyrdom, and Asceticism in Early Christianity

ISBN-13: 9781009054157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 75 str.

Gail P. Streete

Opis

This Element covers social construction of the ideas of body and gender in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity.

Spis treści

1. About Bodies, Gender, and Identity; 2. Equal Opportunity: Martyrs and Ascetics; 3. Martyrdom as Asceticism: Thecla and the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles; 4. Bodies that Save the World; Abbreviations; Bibliography.