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Hardback. New. At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators who at the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty. L. Stephanie Cobb explores the double embodiment of "male" and "female" gender ideals in these figures, connecting them to Greco-Roman virtues and the construction of Christian group identities. Both male and female martyrs conducted their battles in the amphitheater, a masculine environment that enabled the divine combatants to showcase their strength, virility, and volition. These Christian martyr accounts also illustrated masculinity through the language of justice, resistance to persuasion, and-more subtly but most effectively-the juxtaposition of "unmanly" individuals (usually slaves, the old, or the young) with those at the height of male maturity and accomplishment…
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Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts Hardcover - 2008
by L. Stephanie Cobb
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- Title Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts
- Author L. Stephanie Cobb
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2008-09-04
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231144988 / 0231144989
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Cultural Region: Mediterranean
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Theometrics: Academic
- Library of Congress subjects Church history - Primitive and early church,, Martyrdom - Christianity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008005088
- Dewey Decimal Code 272.108
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