Nathan D. Howard

Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

The Cappadocian Fathers and the Rhetoric of Masculinity

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Nathan Howard explores gender and identity formation in fourth-century Cappadocia, where pro-Nicene bishops used a rhetoric of contest that aligned with conventions of classical Greek masculinity. Howard demonstrates that epistolary exhibitions served as 'a locus for' asserting manhood in the fourth century. These performances illustrate how a culture of orality that had defined manhood among civic elites was reframed as a contest whereby one accrued status through merits of composition. Howard shows how the Cappadocians' rhetoric also reordered the body and materiality as components of a maleness over which they moderated. He interrogates fourth-century theological conflict as part of a rhetorical battle over claims to manhood that supported the Cappadocians' theology and cast doubt on non-Trinitarian rivals, whom they cast as effeminate and disingenuous. Investigating accounts of pro-Nicene protagonists overcoming struggles, Howard establishes that tropes based on classical standards of gender contributed to the formation of Trinitarian orthodoxy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009093149
• Artikelnr.: 70913374

Autorenporträt

Nathan D. Howard is Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Martin. His scholarship has been funded by Dumbarton Oaks, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work has appeared in a number of edited journals and volumes, including the Journal of Late Antiquity, Approaches to the Byzantine Family, and Studia Patristica.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The sweat of eloquence: epistolary Ag
n and second sophistic origins; 2. The Ag
n of friendship: sensory rhetoric, aesthetics, and gift exchange; 3. Personification of sacred Aret
; 4. Ag
n and theological authority: hagiography and polemics of identity.