...Maia Kotrosits In her 1998 article “The Lady Vanishes,” Elizabeth Clark issued a challenge to the foundationalisms of feminist historiography of Late Antiquity through developments in poststructuralist theory. This article proposes its own reorientation to historical work on gender, but it does so...

... terms it becomes evident that the way we think about women is part of a high-stakes conflict around the use of the past. feminism historiography early Christianity methodology interdisciplinary gender race © 2020 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please...

... for the study of gender and pilgrimage in particular. This bias towards famous literary sources and elite experience, however, obscures our understanding of the “normal” women who made up the majority of female pilgrims. This article seeks to redress this imbalance by integrating material and textual sources...