A mother's martyrdom: elite Christian motherhood and the "Martyrdom of Domnina"
This article examines the Martyrdom of Domnina as recorded by John Chrysostom and Eusebius of Caesarea in order to show how early Christian ideas of mothering and motherhood for upper-class women were constructed through rhetorical examples. It is interested in how the martyr tale created new notion...
| Subtitles: | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza new scholar award first-place winner |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana Univ. Press
[2016]
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| In: |
Journal of feminist studies in religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 11-26 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Martyr
/ Christianity
/ Upper class
/ Motherhood
/ History 200-400
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| RelBib Classification: | CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CH Christianity and Society KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KCD Hagiography; saints |
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| Summary: | This article examines the Martyrdom of Domnina as recorded by John Chrysostom and Eusebius of Caesarea in order to show how early Christian ideas of mothering and motherhood for upper-class women were constructed through rhetorical examples. It is interested in how the martyr tale created new notions of Christian pudicitia (feminine modesty) and pietas (piety) through the rhetorical model of a devout mother who kills her two children as an act of Christian martyrdom. Through its comparative analysis of the ideal Roman matrona and the ideal Christian matrona as she emerged through the Domnina narrative, this article demonstrates how ideas about the elite Christian mother developed through the referencing and reframing of contemporary notions of Roman elite motherhood. |
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| ISSN: | 8755-4178 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of feminist studies in religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.32.2.03 |