Catherine Conybeare
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Conybeare |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Conybeare |
| SIGNATURE | CONYBEARE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-6981-6879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Was Augustine Black
This paper—the text of a lecture given at Oxford in 2022—explores possible answers to a question frequently posed as I worked on the book Augustine the African: was Augustine Black? I begin by exploring the evidence for Augustine’s appearance in literal terms, through textual traces or visual images, and briefly discussing the Amazigh heritage of his mother. I then look at the examples and metaphors in his preaching for further hints. The questio…
Medea/Media: A glitchy counterfactual
James Ijames, the winner of a 2022 Pulitzer prize for Fat Ham, loosely based on Hamlet, has just presented a new realization of Medea, Media/Medea, which had its world premiere at Bryn Mawr College and the Community College of Philadelphia in April 2023. This article provides a reading of it, addressing the themes of irony, queer ‘authenticity’, acting, and mothering through the framing of the ‘glitchy counterfactual’ — a conceit we borrow from L…
Virgil, Creator of the World
This chapter looks at an early stage in the construction of the Latin tradition, reviewing the ways in which the early fifth-century Macrobius treats Virgil as a godlike author, constructing his influence along the lines of Christian monotheism while resolutely disavowing any knowledge of Christianity. Macrobius too is constructing his tradition of Latin literature, while positioning himself as a crucial contributor to that tradition – an even cl…
Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar
Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate the fields of classical philology and theology. This collection of essays, however, explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between them. It demonstrates how from antiquity to the present they have marched hand in hand, informing each other with method, views of the past and structures of argument. The volume rewrites the history of discipline formation, and reveals how close th…
How to lament an eternal city: The ambiguous fall of Rome
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The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions
Augustine’s Confessions is one of the most significant works of Western culture. Cast as a long, impassioned conversation with God, it is intertwined with passages of life-narrative and with key theological and philosophical insights. It is enduringly popular, and justly so. The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions is an engaging introduction to this spiritually creative and intellectually original work. This guidebook is organized by t…
Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions
Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions
Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions
The Letters of Symmachus: Book 1 by Michele Renee Salzman, Michael Roberts (review)
Reviewed by: The Letters of Symmachus: Book 1by Michele Renee Salzman, Michael Roberts Catherine Conybeare The Letters of Symmachus: Book 1Michele Renee Salzman, Michael Roberts, trans. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 30. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. Pp. lxxii + 215. ISBN 1589835972. This volume gives us the first book of the letters of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, eloquent and energetic facilitator of gentlemanly colloquy an…
Quotquot haec legerint meminerint: All Who Read This Will Remember
Quotquot haec legerint meminerint: All Who Read This Will Remember Catherine Conybeare (bio) I think that all of us who work on Augustine of Hippo feel after a while that we have a deeply personal relationship with him: such is the force of Augustine’s personality. But Gene Vance experienced that feeling with particular intensity. Gene thought and wrote and talked about Augustine throughout his scholarly life.1 He aired Augustine’s ideas with an …
Women Writing Latin, from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe . Laurie J. Churchill , Phyllis R. Brown , Jane E. Jeffrey
The Ambiguous Laughter of Saint Laurence
This essay uses contemporary theories of masculinity to read Prudentius' narrative of the martyrdom of St. Laurence ( Peristephanon 2). We find that, far from being the site of a conventional glorification of martyrdom and Rome, this narrative contains many subversive elements which derive from the presentation of Laurence as ambiguously-gendered. The subversion is epitomized in the famous jest of Laurence as he lies roasting on the gridiron; but…
Medea/Media: A glitchy counterfactual
James Ijames, the winner of a 2022 Pulitzer prize for Fat Ham, loosely based on Hamlet, has just presented a new realization of Medea, Media/Medea, which had its world premiere at Bryn Mawr College and the Community College of Philadelphia in April 2023. This article provides a reading of it, addressing the themes of irony, queer ‘authenticity’, acting, and mothering through the framing of the ‘glitchy counterfactual’ — a conceit we borrow from L…
The Ambiguous Laughter of Saint Laurence
This essay uses contemporary theories of masculinity to read Prudentius' narrative of the martyrdom of St. Laurence ( Peristephanon 2). We find that, far from being the site of a conventional glorification of martyrdom and Rome, this narrative contains many subversive elements which derive from the presentation of Laurence as ambiguously-gendered. The subversion is epitomized in the famous jest of Laurence as he lies roasting on the gridiron; but…
Women Writing Latin, from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe . Laurie J. Churchill , Phyllis R. Brown , Jane E. Jeffrey
The Letters of Symmachus: Book 1 by Michele Renee Salzman, Michael Roberts (review)
Reviewed by: The Letters of Symmachus: Book 1by Michele Renee Salzman, Michael Roberts Catherine Conybeare The Letters of Symmachus: Book 1Michele Renee Salzman, Michael Roberts, trans. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 30. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. Pp. lxxii + 215. ISBN 1589835972. This volume gives us the first book of the letters of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, eloquent and energetic facilitator of gentlemanly colloquy an…
Quotquot haec legerint meminerint: All Who Read This Will Remember
Quotquot haec legerint meminerint: All Who Read This Will Remember Catherine Conybeare (bio) I think that all of us who work on Augustine of Hippo feel after a while that we have a deeply personal relationship with him: such is the force of Augustine’s personality. But Gene Vance experienced that feeling with particular intensity. Gene thought and wrote and talked about Augustine throughout his scholarly life.1 He aired Augustine’s ideas with an …
How to lament an eternal city: The ambiguous fall of Rome
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions
Augustine’s Confessions is one of the most significant works of Western culture. Cast as a long, impassioned conversation with God, it is intertwined with passages of life-narrative and with key theological and philosophical insights. It is enduringly popular, and justly so. The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions is an engaging introduction to this spiritually creative and intellectually original work. This guidebook is organized by t…
Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions
Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions
Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions
Virgil, Creator of the World
This chapter looks at an early stage in the construction of the Latin tradition, reviewing the ways in which the early fifth-century Macrobius treats Virgil as a godlike author, constructing his influence along the lines of Christian monotheism while resolutely disavowing any knowledge of Christianity. Macrobius too is constructing his tradition of Latin literature, while positioning himself as a crucial contributor to that tradition – an even cl…
Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar
Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate the fields of classical philology and theology. This collection of essays, however, explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between them. It demonstrates how from antiquity to the present they have marched hand in hand, informing each other with method, views of the past and structures of argument. The volume rewrites the history of discipline formation, and reveals how close th…
Medea/Media: A glitchy counterfactual
James Ijames, the winner of a 2022 Pulitzer prize for Fat Ham, loosely based on Hamlet, has just presented a new realization of Medea, Media/Medea, which had its world premiere at Bryn Mawr College and the Community College of Philadelphia in April 2023. This article provides a reading of it, addressing the themes of irony, queer ‘authenticity’, acting, and mothering through the framing of the ‘glitchy counterfactual’ — a conceit we borrow from L…
Was Augustine Black
This paper—the text of a lecture given at Oxford in 2022—explores possible answers to a question frequently posed as I worked on the book Augustine the African: was Augustine Black? I begin by exploring the evidence for Augustine’s appearance in literal terms, through textual traces or visual images, and briefly discussing the Amazigh heritage of his mother. I then look at the examples and metaphors in his preaching for further hints. The questio…
Art (9 works) · Art history (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · 354-430 (3 works) · Augustine, saint, bishop of hippo (3 works) · Augustinian Studies and Theology (3 works) · Christian Church (3 works) · Christianity (3 works)