Eschatological time as women’s time? Gendered temporality and female holiness in Early Christianity and Byzantium

Project description

Research into the disappearance of female saints

Why did female saints progressively disappear over the Byzantine millennium? To answer this question, the EU-funded GenTime project will investigate the nexus between time and the construction of the feminine in the Late Antique and Byzantine hagiographical discourses. The project will review this against the eschatological expectations shaping early Christian ideals of female holiness. It will analyse stories about female saints produced between the 2nd and the 13th century. The project will also highlight the persistence of strategies used to control women within patriarchal social orders. The results of the project will raise awareness about how gendered discourses of time have historically been used to promote lifestyles that have more to do with power struggles between competing social groups.

Fields of science

• humanities › philosophy, ethics and religion › philosophy › metaphysics › teleology

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2018 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2018
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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-CAR - CAR – Career Restart panel

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Coordinator

SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET

Address

Campusvej 55
5230 Odense M
Denmark

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU contribution

€ 207 312