Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction / Dale B. Martin  1

Gender  

The Lady Appears: Materializations of "Woman" in Early Monastic Literature / David Brakke  25

No Friendly Letters: Augustine's Correspondence with Women / Maureen A. Tilley  40

On Mary's Voice: Gendered Words in Syriac Marian Tradition / Susan Ashbrook Harvey  63

Is There a Harlot in This Text?: Hagiography and the Grotesque / Patricia Cox Miller  87

Macrina's Tattoo / Virginia Burrus  103

Aestheticism  

Rereading the Jovinianist Controversy: Aestheticism and Clerical Authority in Late Ancient Christianity / David G. Hunter  119

The Dark Side of Landscape: Ideology and Power in the Christian Myth of the Desert / James E. Goehring  136

Monks and Other Animals / Blake Leyerle  150

Historiography  

Archives in the Fiction: Rabbinic Historiography and Church History / Daniel Boyarin  175

How to Read Heresiology / Averil Cameron  193

Ascetic Practice and the Genealogy of Heresy: Problems in Modern Scholarship and Ancient Textual Representation / Teresa M. Shaw  213

History, Fiction, and Figuralism in Book 8 of Augustine's Confessions / Mark Vessey   237

Hellenism and Historiography: Gregory of Nazianzus and Julian in Dialogue / Susanna Elm  258

Knowing Theodoret: Text and Self / Philip Rousseau  278

Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome / Dennis E. Trout  298

Bibliography  317

Contributors  355

Index of Modern Authors  357

Index of Citations to Ancient Authors and Scriptures  360

Dale B. Martin

David Brakke

Maureen A. Tilley

Susan Ashbrook Harvey

Patricia Cox Miller

Virginia Burrus

David G. Hunter

James E. Goehring

Blake Leyerle

Daniel Boyarin

Averil Cameron

Teresa M. Shaw

Mark Vessey

Susanna Elm

Dennis E. Trout

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“The volume gives a good picture of some of the best of scholarship that is indebted to the ‘cultural turn in late ancient studies’.”—Andrew Louth, Theology and Sexuality

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