Beyond the End - Episode 3. Liminal Lives: Eschatology and Early Christian Women

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Oct 27, 2026 · 27m

What happens to gender in the end times? This episode explores how early Christian communities imagined transformed bodies, blurred social boundaries, and redefined gender roles in light of eschatological expectation. Hairuo Wang and Dr Priscilla Buongiorno examine literary and visual portrayals of holy women, especially saints and martyrs, who abandon socially prescribed markers of femininity such as clothing, hair, bodily adornment, and household roles. The episode asks what these depictions reveal about early Christian visions of gender transformation, and how they helped shape later…