Carly Daniel-Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1076277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carly Daniel-Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carly |
| FAMILY NAME | Daniel-Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | DANIEL-HUGHES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8458-7731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adornments of empire: Early Christian dress and the colonial composition of gender
This article considers anti-adornment rhetoric circulating in Roman antiquity and in two of the earliest and most extensive treatments of dress by early Christian writers, namely, treatises by Tertullian of Carthage and Clement of Alexandria. It treats ancient Roman-period discourses of anti-adornment to reveal how configurations of gender were entangled in Roman-imperial race–making and colonial projects. Tertullian’s and Clement’s treatments of…
The Apostle of Failure: Queer Refusal, the Corinthian Letters, and Paul’s Unflattering Characterization in the Acts of Thecla
This article examines the Acts of Thecla ’s unflattering presentation of the character Paul, as part of the reception of Paul’s Corinthian letters into the second century. Informed by feminist and queer biblical interpretations of the Corinthian exchange, it shows how the Acts of Thecla picks up on tensions over authority with Paul’s teachings on baptism, eschatology, and sexual renunciation in its portrait of Paul. Engaging Jack Halberstam’s The…
Major Review: Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity by Candida R. Moss
Re-Making the World: Christianity and Categories: Essays in Honor of Karen L. King
This edited volume brings together important scholars of religion in the ancient world to honor the impact of Karen L. King's scholarship in this field. Her work shows that Christianity was diverse from its first moments - even before the word »Christian« was coined - and insists that scholars must engage both in deep historical work and in ethical reflection. These essays honor King's intellectual impact by further investigating the categories t…
Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians. By David Wheeler-Reed
Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians challenges the view that current American sexual mores—ones that sustain heterosexual marriage and family—are “Judeo-Christian” values. Conversely, the sexual morality that guides conservative Americans, argues David Wheeler-Reed, does not reflect that of early Christians, who largely advocated an end to marriage and child-bearing. If conservative Americans want to …
The Sex Trade and Slavery at Meals
The Sex Trade and Slavery at Meals
In this chapter I outline the contours of the sex trade in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds in order to demonstrate that it, and the institution of slavery of which it was a part, were fundamental to ancient meal culture. The meal relied on slave labor not only for executing the banquet—which in elite households could prove quite an elaborate affair 1 —but also for entertaining the guests, and in so doing, reflecting back the status and prestig…
Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest: Status, Corporeality, and the Negotiation of Power at Ancient Meals
This essay explores fictionalized meals in Roman satire, with a focus on Petronius's Satyricon and Lucian's Dialogues ofthe Courtesans. I am intrigued by the central role meals play in these texts, and especially the attention to bodily performances that mark them. Where philosophical symposia highlight diners' restrained corporeal displays, and consumption of food, drink, and sex, is minimized, and even avoided, satirical meals scenes redound wi…
Bodily Displays of Modesty: Or, How to Power Dress in the Roman World
In one of Cicero’s infamous denunciations of Mark Antony, the rhetor accuses his opponent of exhaustively pursuing Curio, the son of a consul. The insult plays on a host of literary themes from Roman New Comedy, as Rebecca Langlands has argued in her recent monograph, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome. Antony, who was in fact financially indebted to Curio (the cost of launching a senatorial career at Rome),2 is likened to a courtesan whose dubious …
Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire, by Laura Nasrallah
The Salvation of the Flesh in Tertullian of Carthage: Dressing for the Resurrection
Examines Tertullian of Carthage's (160-220 C.E.) writings on dress within Roman vestimentary culture. It employs a socio-historical approach, together with insights from performance theory and feminis
Wear the Armor of Your Shame: Debating Veiling and the Salvation of the Flesh in Tertullian of Carthage
In the early third century, Tertullian (approx. 150-220 C.E.) penned On the Veiling of Virgins to cajole unveiled virgin women to cover their heads. While scholars have read the treatise primarily as evidence of his misogyny or his attempt to establish a male ecclesiology, this article examines it as evidence of a debate between Tertullian and virgin women in Carthage over the nature of a woman's flesh and the possibility of its transformation. E…
The Salvation of the Flesh in Tertullian of Carthage: Dressing for the Resurrection
Examines Tertullian of Carthage's (160-220 C.E.) writings on dress within Roman vestimentary culture. It employs a socio-historical approach, together with insights from performance theory and feminis
Wear the Armor of Your Shame: Debating Veiling and the Salvation of the Flesh in Tertullian of Carthage
In the early third century, Tertullian (approx. 150-220 C.E.) penned On the Veiling of Virgins to cajole unveiled virgin women to cover their heads. While scholars have read the treatise primarily as evidence of his misogyny or his attempt to establish a male ecclesiology, this article examines it as evidence of a debate between Tertullian and virgin women in Carthage over the nature of a woman's flesh and the possibility of its transformation. E…
Wear the Armor of Your Shame: Debating Veiling and the Salvation of the Flesh in Tertullian of Carthage
In the early third century, Tertullian (approx. 150-220 C.E.) penned On the Veiling of Virgins to cajole unveiled virgin women to cover their heads. While scholars have read the treatise primarily as evidence of his misogyny or his attempt to establish a male ecclesiology, this article examines it as evidence of a debate between Tertullian and virgin women in Carthage over the nature of a woman's flesh and the possibility of its transformation. E…
Bodily Displays of Modesty: Or, How to Power Dress in the Roman World
In one of Cicero’s infamous denunciations of Mark Antony, the rhetor accuses his opponent of exhaustively pursuing Curio, the son of a consul. The insult plays on a host of literary themes from Roman New Comedy, as Rebecca Langlands has argued in her recent monograph, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome. Antony, who was in fact financially indebted to Curio (the cost of launching a senatorial career at Rome),2 is likened to a courtesan whose dubious …
Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire, by Laura Nasrallah
The Salvation of the Flesh in Tertullian of Carthage: Dressing for the Resurrection
Examines Tertullian of Carthage's (160-220 C.E.) writings on dress within Roman vestimentary culture. It employs a socio-historical approach, together with insights from performance theory and feminis
The Sex Trade and Slavery at Meals
In this chapter I outline the contours of the sex trade in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds in order to demonstrate that it, and the institution of slavery of which it was a part, were fundamental to ancient meal culture. The meal relied on slave labor not only for executing the banquet—which in elite households could prove quite an elaborate affair 1 —but also for entertaining the guests, and in so doing, reflecting back the status and prestig…
Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest: Status, Corporeality, and the Negotiation of Power at Ancient Meals
This essay explores fictionalized meals in Roman satire, with a focus on Petronius's Satyricon and Lucian's Dialogues ofthe Courtesans. I am intrigued by the central role meals play in these texts, and especially the attention to bodily performances that mark them. Where philosophical symposia highlight diners' restrained corporeal displays, and consumption of food, drink, and sex, is minimized, and even avoided, satirical meals scenes redound wi…
The Sex Trade and Slavery at Meals
Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians. By David Wheeler-Reed
Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians challenges the view that current American sexual mores—ones that sustain heterosexual marriage and family—are “Judeo-Christian” values. Conversely, the sexual morality that guides conservative Americans, argues David Wheeler-Reed, does not reflect that of early Christians, who largely advocated an end to marriage and child-bearing. If conservative Americans want to …
Re-Making the World: Christianity and Categories: Essays in Honor of Karen L. King
This edited volume brings together important scholars of religion in the ancient world to honor the impact of Karen L. King's scholarship in this field. Her work shows that Christianity was diverse from its first moments - even before the word »Christian« was coined - and insists that scholars must engage both in deep historical work and in ethical reflection. These essays honor King's intellectual impact by further investigating the categories t…
Major Review: Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity by Candida R. Moss
The Apostle of Failure: Queer Refusal, the Corinthian Letters, and Paul’s Unflattering Characterization in the Acts of Thecla
This article examines the Acts of Thecla ’s unflattering presentation of the character Paul, as part of the reception of Paul’s Corinthian letters into the second century. Informed by feminist and queer biblical interpretations of the Corinthian exchange, it shows how the Acts of Thecla picks up on tensions over authority with Paul’s teachings on baptism, eschatology, and sexual renunciation in its portrait of Paul. Engaging Jack Halberstam’s The…
Adornments of empire: Early Christian dress and the colonial composition of gender
This article considers anti-adornment rhetoric circulating in Roman antiquity and in two of the earliest and most extensive treatments of dress by early Christian writers, namely, treatises by Tertullian of Carthage and Clement of Alexandria. It treats ancient Roman-period discourses of anti-adornment to reveal how configurations of gender were entangled in Roman-imperial race–making and colonial projects. Tertullian’s and Clement’s treatments of…
Art (8 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)