Nicola Denzey Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Denzey Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola Denzey |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS N D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont Graduate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Urciuoli, Emiliano R. (2024). Citifying Jesus. The Making of an Urban Religion in the Roman Empire. Tübingen
of Urciuoli's habilitation thesis composed under the aegis of the University of Erfurt's Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies / Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe and its five-year project, "Religion
Virgin Territory
Nicola Rebillard, Éric (2020). The Early Martyr Narratives. Neither Authentic Accounts nor Forgeries. Philadelphia
I am not sure I can think of another book in early Christian studies that states its central argument so succinctly in its subtitle, but ric Rebillard's latest book excels in brevity and elegance, so perhaps the subtitle is not entirely surprising. Although we know as soon as we pick up the book what R. will be arguing, the question remains as to why he maintains that the early Christian martyr narratives are "neither authentic accounts nor forge…
Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son
Maria Doerfler takes on the cheerless topic of childhood mortality in her first book, winner of the AAR’s Best First Book Award for 2022. Doerfler writes gracefully and sensitively, opening up a world unfamiliar to many of us: Syriac Christian theological treatises, homilies, and sermons, particularly the work of Ephrem Graecus, Jacob of Serugh, Narsai, and other eastern Christian writers from the fourth to sixth centuries. Some of these sources …
Ordinary Religion in the Late Roman Empire
The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
In The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome, Nicola Denzey Lewis challenges the common understanding of late antique Christianity as dominated by the Cult of Saints. Popularized by historian Peter Brown, the Cult of the Saints presupposes that a 'corporeal turn' in the 4th century CE initiated a new sense of the body (even the corpse or bone) as holy. Denzey Lewis argues that although present elsewhere in the late Roman Empire, no such 'co…
Food for the body, the body as food
Each year in Sicily, Sicilians commemorate the life and death of Saint Agatha, a young woman martyred in antiquity, by consuming small cakes in the shape of a female breast. How did such a curious practiceeating a specific food shaped like a female body partcome to commemorate a late antique martyrdom, and when? This paper considers the curious conflation of bodiesparticularly martyrial bodiesand food in late antique Christian martyrial legends, …
Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
At some point in late antiquity, most scholars believe, Christians reversed the powerful valence of death pollution and considered corpses and bones to be sacred. The rise of the ‘Cult of the Saints’ or ‘cult of relics’ is widely accepted as a curious social phenomenon that characterized late antiquity. This paper argues that although present elsewhere in the late Roman Empire, no such ‘corporeal turn’ happened in Rome. The prevailing assumption …
Damasus and the derelict relics
This article considers the language of ‘mapping’ and ‘topography’ often invoked to describe the activities of Pope Damasus (366–84). Damasus, widely seen as an impresario of the saints, is credited with creating a systematic Christian topography around Rome. This article challenges this perspective, asserting instead that Damasus worked neither systematically nor holistically to transform landscape; his modest interventions relied upon forgotten …
Beyond the Gnostic Gospels
This volume gathers contributions from both junior and senior scholars whose studies have developed in dialogue with Elaine Pagels' work on Nag Hammadi literature and ancient heresiology. Published initially in 1979, Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels represents a landmark of scholarship in religious studies. It not only made the Nag Hammadi writings and Gnosticism popular topics in modern culture, it also invited scholars to rethink early Christianity …
Damasus and the derelict relics
This article considers the language of ‘mapping’ and ‘topography’ often invoked to describe the activities of Pope Damasus (366–84). Damasus, widely seen as an impresario of the saints, is credited with creating a systematic Christian topography around Rome. This article challenges this perspective, asserting instead that Damasus worked neither systematically nor holistically to transform landscape; his modest interventions relied upon forgotten …
Beyond the Gnostic Gospels
This volume gathers contributions from both junior and senior scholars whose studies have developed in dialogue with Elaine Pagels' work on Nag Hammadi literature and ancient heresiology. Published initially in 1979, Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels represents a landmark of scholarship in religious studies. It not only made the Nag Hammadi writings and Gnosticism popular topics in modern culture, it also invited scholars to rethink early Christianity …
The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
At some point in late antiquity, most scholars believe, Christians reversed the powerful valence of death pollution and considered corpses and bones to be sacred. The rise of the ‘Cult of the Saints’ or ‘cult of relics’ is widely accepted as a curious social phenomenon that characterized late antiquity. This paper argues that although present elsewhere in the late Roman Empire, no such ‘corporeal turn’ happened in Rome. The prevailing assumption …
Damasus and the derelict relics
This article considers the language of ‘mapping’ and ‘topography’ often invoked to describe the activities of Pope Damasus (366–84). Damasus, widely seen as an impresario of the saints, is credited with creating a systematic Christian topography around Rome. This article challenges this perspective, asserting instead that Damasus worked neither systematically nor holistically to transform landscape; his modest interventions relied upon forgotten …
The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
In The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome, Nicola Denzey Lewis challenges the common understanding of late antique Christianity as dominated by the Cult of Saints. Popularized by historian Peter Brown, the Cult of the Saints presupposes that a 'corporeal turn' in the 4th century CE initiated a new sense of the body (even the corpse or bone) as holy. Denzey Lewis argues that although present elsewhere in the late Roman Empire, no such 'co…
Food for the body, the body as food
Each year in Sicily, Sicilians commemorate the life and death of Saint Agatha, a young woman martyred in antiquity, by consuming small cakes in the shape of a female breast. How did such a curious practiceeating a specific food shaped like a female body partcome to commemorate a late antique martyrdom, and when? This paper considers the curious conflation of bodiesparticularly martyrial bodiesand food in late antique Christian martyrial legends, …
Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
Ordinary Religion in the Late Roman Empire
Nicola Rebillard, Éric (2020). The Early Martyr Narratives. Neither Authentic Accounts nor Forgeries. Philadelphia
I am not sure I can think of another book in early Christian studies that states its central argument so succinctly in its subtitle, but ric Rebillard's latest book excels in brevity and elegance, so perhaps the subtitle is not entirely surprising. Although we know as soon as we pick up the book what R. will be arguing, the question remains as to why he maintains that the early Christian martyr narratives are "neither authentic accounts nor forge…
Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son
Maria Doerfler takes on the cheerless topic of childhood mortality in her first book, winner of the AAR’s Best First Book Award for 2022. Doerfler writes gracefully and sensitively, opening up a world unfamiliar to many of us: Syriac Christian theological treatises, homilies, and sermons, particularly the work of Ephrem Graecus, Jacob of Serugh, Narsai, and other eastern Christian writers from the fourth to sixth centuries. Some of these sources …
Virgin Territory
Urciuoli, Emiliano R. (2024). Citifying Jesus. The Making of an Urban Religion in the Roman Empire. Tübingen
of Urciuoli's habilitation thesis composed under the aegis of the University of Erfurt's Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies / Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe and its five-year project, "Religion
Art (7 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (7 works) · History (6 works) · Classics (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (3 works) · Christianity (3 works) · Early Christianity (3 works) · Literature (3 works)