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Full Name

Virginia Burrus

University Affiliation

Drew University

Biography

Virginia Burrus is Professor of Early Church History at Drew University.

Selected Publications

The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)

"Begotten, Not Made": Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity (Stanford University Press, 2000)

The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy (University of California Press, 1995)

Chastity as Autonomy: Women in Stories of Apocryphal Acts (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987)

Personal Site

http://www.users.drew.edu/vburrus

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