{"id":187218,"date":"2023-03-29T07:20:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=187218"},"modified":"2023-03-30T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:22:44","slug":"barry-publishes-in-journal-of-late-antiquity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2023\/03\/29\/barry-publishes-in-journal-of-late-antiquity\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Publishes in &#8216;Journal of Late Antiquity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_187219\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187219\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-187219\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/head-shot-300x200.png\" alt=\"Associate Professor of Religious Studies Jennifer Barry\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/head-shot-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/head-shot-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/head-shot-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/head-shot.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-187219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associate Professor of Religious Studies Jennifer Barry<\/p><\/div><p>Jennifer Barry, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, was recently published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/49155\">Journal of Late Antiquity<\/a>. Her article, &ldquo;A Bad Romance: Late Ancient Fantasy, Violence, and Christian Hagiography&rdquo; spotlights material in her current book project on gender violence in late ancient Christian hagiographies (saint&rsquo;s lives).<\/p><p>The following is an abstract of the article:<\/p><p>In Gerontius&rsquo;s labor of love, the&nbsp;<i>Life of Melania the Younger<\/i>, the hagiographer makes it clear that this is an intentional exercise in memory-making as well as a performance of personal piety. To craft his hagiographical fantasy, Gerontius imports romantic themes from Greek romance novels and ancient dream theory to evaluate Melania&rsquo;s pre-saintly life. Here, I explore the framing of the&nbsp;<i>vita<\/i>&nbsp;as a genre-bending (bad) romance and resituate this text within a larger discourse of constructed male fantasies of gender-based violence. To accomplish this goal, I examine overlapping themes in Christian and non-Christian Greek novels to emphasize references to sexual violence in the&nbsp;<i>Life of Melania the Younger<\/i>. Then, I show how the use of ancient dream theory frames the hagiographical project and produces what I identify as a male fantasy. Finally, I conclude that the hagiographical project&mdash;the intentional act of writing holiness&mdash;produced a troubling vision of sanctioned domestic violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Barry, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, was recently published in the Journal of Late Antiquity. Her article, &ldquo;A Bad Romance: Late Ancient Fantasy, Violence, and Christian Hagiography&rdquo; spotlights material in her current book project on gender violence in late ancient Christian hagiographies (saint&rsquo;s lives).The following is an abstract of the article:In Gerontius&rsquo;s labor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28559,"featured_media":187219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[9249],"class_list":["post-187218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-jbarry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}