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Author:   David Zakarian
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   4
Weight:   0.547kg
ISBN:  

9789004444416

ISBN 10:   9004444416
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   15 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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‘angełos’ History of the Armenians  1 Introduction  2 The Literary Aspects of the Text  3 The Prologue and the Life  4 The Representation of Hṙip‘simē and Her Companions  5 The Teaching  6 Xosroviduxt and Ašxēn  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 Šahapivan 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

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David Zakarian, DPhil (2015), University of Oxford, is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies in Oxford and an Associate of Pembroke College. He has published several articles and book chapters on the representation of women in early Christian Armenian literature. His recent project as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019) was dedicated to the study of colophons of medieval Armenian manuscripts.

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