Women, Too, Were Blessed

Women, Too, Were Blessed

The Portrayal of Women in Early Christian Armenian Texts

Zakarian, David

Brill

01/2021

234

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Inglês

9789004444416

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Transliteration



Introduction

?1?Scope

?2?The Fifth Century

?3?Two Traditions of the Christianisation of Armenia

?4?Previous Research

?5?Nature of the Texts: Representation versus Lived Reality

?6?In Comparison with Other Traditions

?7?Structure of the Book

?8?Brief Overview of the Primary Sources



part i: Context

1 Women in Pre-Christian Arsacid Armenia

?1?Introduction

?2?Armenian Society in the First-Fourth Centuries CE

?3?The Institution of the Family

?4?Customary Law

?5?The Pre-Christian Religion of Armenia

?6?Conclusion



part ii: Representation

2 The Representation of St Sanduxt in The Martyrdom of St Thaddeus and Sanduxt

?1?Introduction

?2?St Thecla as a Literary Model for Armenian Authors

?3?The Representation of Sanduxt

?4?Additional Remarks

?5?Conclusion



3 Women in Agat'angelos' History of the Armenians

?1?Introduction

?2?The Literary Aspects of the Text

?3?The Prologue and the Life

?4?The Representation of H?ip'sime and Her Companions

?5?The Teaching

?6?Xosroviduxt and Asxen

?7?Conclusion



4 The Early Armenian Church and Female Asceticism

?1?Introduction

?2?Female Asceticism in the Greco-Syriac Sources

?3?Female Asceticism in the Fifth-Century Armenian Texts

?4?Conclusion



part iii: Lived Reality

5 Women in Society: Spaces, Roles, and Everyday Life

?1?Introduction

?2?Physical Spaces

?3?Women as Educators

?4?Glimpses of Everyday Life

?5?Conclusion



6 Marriage in Early Christian Armenia

?1?Introduction

?2?Different Traditions

?3?Local Customs

?4?Marriage Patterns of the Armenian Elite

?5?Widowhood

?6?Women in the Sahapivan Canons: Additional Remarks

?7?Conclusion



7 Queenship in Arsacid Armenia

?1?Introduction

?2?The Queen's Title

?3?Symbolic Attributes of Authority

?4?The Queen's Authority

?5?The Exercise of Power

?6?Court Intrigues

?7?Conclusion



8 Violence against Women

?1?Introduction

?2?The System of Honour and Shame

?3?The Epic Histories

?4?Domestic Violence

?5?Conclusion



Conclusions

Bibliography

Index
Armenia; Arsacid; Christianisation; Church Fathers; Early Christianity; Zoroastrianism; fifth century; gender; historiography; literature; marriage; narrative; queenship; violence against women