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

最近的学术工作已经重新评估了痛苦的基督徒身体的写照和它在古代晚期文学中的代表性。然而，对苦难话语的批判性研究几乎只集中在殉道者的来源上，实际上忽略了苦行文学的重要组成部分，其中苦难的叙述也很突出。为了解决这一差距，在学术工作，我建议调查的文本纪念correct痛苦的女性苦行者在第四和第五世纪基督教话语。苦行僧的痛苦并不是英雄烈士的唯一保留，实际上，苦行僧文学通过对苦行僧主人公腐烂的肉体、疾病和腐烂的生动、怪诞和经常令人震惊的描述来定位痛苦。这种不流血的或每天的殉难被纪念，认证和永存，通过放置在一个元叙事的救赎和历史使用诉诸圣经和历史先例。通过关注女性苦行苦难与其在这个框架中的位置之间的关系，我的目标是为我们对超越殉难领域的苦行表演和超越迫害的殉难的理解提供新的视角。

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.