Daily Martyrdom and the Suffering Feminine Body: Discourses of Female Asceticism in Late Antique Christianity

每日殉难与受苦的女性身体：古代基督教晚期女性禁欲主义的话语

• 批准号: 2433447
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2433447
• 关键词: Daily; Martyrdom; Suffering; Feminine; Body

Recent scholarly work has re-evaluated the portrayal of the suffering Christian body and its representation in literature of Late Antiquity. Yet critical study of discourses of suffering have focused almost solely on martyrological sources, virtually ignoring the significant body of ascetic literature in which narratives of suffering are also prominent. To address this gap in scholarly work, I propose to investigate the textual commemoration of corporeal suffering of female ascetics in fourth and fifth century Christian discourse. Corporeal suffering was not the sole preserve of the heroic martyr, indeed ascetic literature located suffering in graphic, grotesque and often shocking descriptions of rotting flesh, illness and putrefaction of their ascetic protagonists. This bloodless or daily martyrdom wascommemorated, authenticated and perpetuated, through placement within a metanarrative of salvation and history using recourse to scripture and historical precedents. By focusing on the relationship between female ascetic suffering and its placement within this framework, I aim to shed new light on ourunderstanding of corporeal performances beyond the field of martyrdom and of martyrdom beyond persecution.

最近的学术工作重新评估了苦难的基督教身体及其在上古文学中的代表。然而，对苦难话语的批判性研究几乎仅仅集中在符号学来源上，实际上忽略了苦难文学的重要体系，在这种文学中，苦难的叙事也很突出。为了解决学术工作中的这一差距，我建议在第四和五世纪基督教的话语中调查女性禁欲主义者的肉体苦难的文字纪念。有形的痛苦不是英雄烈士的唯一保存，确实是苦行者的苦难文学，苦苦挣扎，怪异，怪异且经常令人震惊的描述腐烂的肉，疾病和苦行者主角的腐烂。这种无流血或每日的难度通过在救赎和历史的元代遗物中使用圣经和历史先例的元代遗物中被安置在救赎和历史的元中。通过关注女性禁欲苦难与在这个框架中的位置之间的关系，我的目标是对我们对y虫领域和the脚的offer虫领域之外的有形表演的理解进行新的启示。