Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Authors -- Introduction -- Section 1 Female Authority, Gender Roles, and Religious Experience and Practices in Early Christianity -- A Portrayal of “Gendered” Authority: Mary of Cassobola Across Time and Space in Two Ps.Ignatian Epistles -- A Male Colonization of a Female Visionary Body: The “Montanist” Prophetess in Tertullian’s On the Soul 9,4 -- Women Facing Martyrdom: The Interplay Between Temporality and Social and Gender Roles in Early Christianity -- Section 2 Re-writing Women’s Authority: Tradition, Transmission, and Reception of Female Sainthood Across Time and Space -- Emulating Thecla: Mygdonia, Xanthippe, and Polyxena -- Husband as a “Religious Other”: Family Discord from Early Christian Apology to Medieval Hagiography -- The Metaphrastic Female Saint: Time and Temporality in Rewritten Lives of Women Saints -- Section 3 Women, Saints, and Time: The Construction of Gendered Temporality in the Lives of Holy Women -- Unlike Their Mothers: The Struggle Against Time of the Two Melanias -- Mothers’ Time: The Temporality of Motherhood in the Life of Martha and the Life of Symeon Stylite the Younger -- Girls, Interrupted: Synchronicity and Genealogy in Tzetzes’ Hypomnema for Saint Lucy -- Index |