Hell Hath No FuryPub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.12987/9780300262667-004
{"title":"1. Assigned to Suffering: Gendered Bodily Suffering in the Ancient World","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300262667-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300262667-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437674,"journal":{"name":"Hell Hath No Fury","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128927074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hell Hath No FuryPub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0006
Meghan R. Henning
{"title":"Conclusion: Making Hell on Earth","authors":"Meghan R. Henning","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"By the fifth century, the Theodosian Code brought the hellscapes of the early Christian apocalypses to earth. In this Christian compilation of Roman law, a nurse who mishandles her charge has molten lead poured down her throat, and the passive partner in a homoerotic coupling suffers burning by “avenging flames,” amputation of his hands and feet, and glossectomy (surgical removal of the tongue)....","PeriodicalId":437674,"journal":{"name":"Hell Hath No Fury","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115872767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hell Hath No FuryPub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0007
Meghan R. Henning
{"title":"Epilogue: Ancient Christian Hell's Afterlives","authors":"Meghan R. Henning","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"In ancient Christian depictions of hell the body became a way to write out a system of justice. We like to imagine that this gendered, violent scheme of justice is far removed from our world by time, space, Enlightenment reason, liberalism, and advances in human rights. But hell is not a distant heterotopia. The sediment of hell's logic is much nearer, present in the ways that we conceive social responsibilities, justice, and bodies....","PeriodicalId":437674,"journal":{"name":"Hell Hath No Fury","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125885488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hell Hath No FuryPub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.12987/9780300262667-006
{"title":"3. Becoming Female and Deformed through Suffering in Hell","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300262667-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300262667-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437674,"journal":{"name":"Hell Hath No Fury","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127630975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hell Hath No FuryPub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.12987/9780300262667-005
{"title":"2. Gendered Bodies, Social Identities, and the Susceptibility to Sin","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300262667-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300262667-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437674,"journal":{"name":"Hell Hath No Fury","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127452799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hell Hath No FuryPub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0002
Meghan R. Henning
{"title":"Assigned to Suffering: Gendered Bodily Suffering in the Ancient World","authors":"Meghan R. Henning","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 offers an overview and fresh reading of the relationship between Gender and Bodily Suffering in early Christianity. The chapter opens with Clement of Alexandria’s statement that women are “assigned to suffering” and explores the way in which this understanding of gender and the body can be seen in other ancient literature, philosophy, juridical torture, and medicine. The chapter the returns to different ancient Christian understandings of gender, the body, and suffering, demonstrating the different ways that early Christians related gender and bodily suffering. Whereas previous studies of these themes had not included discussions of punitive bodily suffering, this chapter brings together disparate understandings of the body that one finds in church teachers, martyrdom acts, tours of hell, and monastic teachings.","PeriodicalId":437674,"journal":{"name":"Hell Hath No Fury","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123918063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hell Hath No FuryPub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0003
Meghan R. Henning
{"title":"Gendered Bodies, Social Identities, and the Susceptibility to Sin","authors":"Meghan R. Henning","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 analyses the specific sins and punishments attributed to female and male bodies in early Christian apocalypses, highlighting how one’s eternal fate depended upon his or her ability to perform a socially scripted gender identity. It demonstrates that the earliest tours of hell organized their sins and punishments around Roman notions of the household, and later Christians expanded and reorganized the list of sins that were punished according to shifting notions of gender, the body, and social roles. This chapter also studies changes in the early Christian expectations of men and women that differ based on the historical context of the apocalyptic authors. For instance, in the earlier apocalypses mothers and fathers are both held accountable for abortion and infant exposure, whereas later texts only punish women for these practices.","PeriodicalId":437674,"journal":{"name":"Hell Hath No Fury","volume":"296 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128636637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hell Hath No FuryPub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.12987/9780300262667-007
{"title":"4. From Passive to Active: Gender and Atonement in Mary’s Tours of Hell","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300262667-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300262667-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437674,"journal":{"name":"Hell Hath No Fury","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129892003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hell Hath No FuryPub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0004
Meghan R. Henning
{"title":"Becoming Female and Deformed through Suffering in Hell","authors":"Meghan R. Henning","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300223118.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 focuses on the bodily torments themselves, demonstrating that hell threatened readers with the horror of transforming into a female, disabled body through references to hair, skin, and reproductive organs. This chapter applies the ancient understandings of the bodies that were “assigned to suffering” in chapter 1 to an analysis of the apocalyptic depictions of hell. The results of this analysis demonstrate that ancient Christian understandings of the suffering body were not simply employing a binary juxtaposition between male and female, or a negative valuation of the feminine or disabled body. For example, this chapter examines the weeping, leaky, male bodies of Jesus, Peter, and Paul as well as the weeping bodies of male sinners, without trying to fit the ideological differences of those depictions into a single explanatory framework.","PeriodicalId":437674,"journal":{"name":"Hell Hath No Fury","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117105976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}