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2022 Annual Meeting

Denver, Colorado

Meeting Begins11/19/2022
Meeting Ends11/22/2022

Call for Papers Opens: 1/19/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 3/18/2022

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Inventing Christianity: Apostolic Fathers, Apologists, and Martyrs


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Inventing Christianity: Apostolic Fathers, Apologists, and Martyrs will be running two sessions in 2022. For our first session, we take the first part of our section name and ask: in what ways was early Christianity invented? Beliefs and practices have been both justified and excluded by appeals to “early Christianity” or “the” early Church. Therefore, we invite papers that explore any aspect of the construction, development, appropriation or reception of the idea of “early Christianity” in the ancient world or beyond. Our second section uses the recent publication of L. Stephanie Cobb’s edited volume, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2021) to reflect on the place of this martyr act in the historiography of early Christianity. We invite papers that address themes such as: gender and the body, authorship, martyrdom and the cult of the martyrs, visions and prophecy, or Christianity in North Africa. We are particularly interested in novel assessments of these themes that offer new appraisals of this martyr act and its reception in late antiquity.

Program Unit Chairs

Paul Middleton

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