L Stephanie Cobb: 2 books
Dying to Be Men
Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators who at the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty. L. Stephanie Cobb explores the double embodiment...
Divine Deliverance
Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Does martyrdom hurt? The obvious answer to this question is “yes.” L. Stephanie Cobb, asserts, however, that early Christian martyr texts respond to this question with an emphatic “no!” Divine Deliverance examines the original martyr texts of the second through fifth centuries, concluding...