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dc.contributor.supervisorMarx, Heidi
dc.contributor.authorLeMaître, Bénédicte
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-08T15:26:32Z
dc.date.available2022-09-08T15:26:32Z
dc.date.copyright2022-08-25
dc.date.issued2022-08-25
dc.date.submitted2022-08-26T03:24:45Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/36878
dc.description.abstractThis thesis provides an examination of late antique Christian women and ways through which they accessed leadership, authority, and autonomy in a period that offered them limited opportunities. Drawing upon hagiographical texts, authoritative church texts, councils, canons, decrees, and letters, this thesis will illumine the lives of late antique Christian women, the obstacles they faced, and the ways through which they carved out space for themselves in a male dominated sphere. The main finding of this thesis is that women’s roles were limited, varied, and that authoritative voices in the church placed great effort into trying to control women in this period. When women’s roles, lives, and ministries were actually documented, they often fell victim to rhetorical construction in order to further the ideals of the men writing them into history. Despite attempts from the male dominated authoritative structure of the church to regulate women, hagiographical exaggerations, and manipulations of gendering, some early Christian women found ways to serve as leaders, access some authority, and live with autonomy.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectLate Antiquityen_US
dc.subjectEarly Christianityen_US
dc.subjectEarly Christian Womenen_US
dc.subjectWomen in the Churchen_US
dc.subjectDeaconessesen_US
dc.subjectEcumenical Councilsen_US
dc.subjectMelania the Youngeren_US
dc.subjectMelania the Elderen_US
dc.subjectOlympiasen_US
dc.subjectPelagiaen_US
dc.subjectDeaconess Romanaen_US
dc.subjectMacrinaen_US
dc.subjectTheclaen_US
dc.subjectHippolytusen_US
dc.titleWomen's autonomy, authority, and leadership through the late antique period of the Church in the Roman Empireen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
dc.degree.disciplineReligionen_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeLewis, Justin (Religion)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeAdams, Christopher (Political Studies)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeMacKendrick, Kenneth (Religion)en_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2022en_US
oaire.awardTitleRuth and Gordon Harland Fellowshipen_US
project.funder.nameUniversity of Manitoba, Department of Religionen_US
local.subject.manitobanoen_US


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