Dr Kate Cooper - publications

Authored book

• Cooper, Kate. The fall of the Roman household. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Cooper, K. The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Edited book

• Cooper, K., Dr Julia H Hillner, Hillner, J H. Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300-900 (Editors Kate Cooper and Julia Hillner). Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Cooper, K. The Roman Martyrs and the Politics of Memory. 9, Blackwell--Early Medieval Europe, 2000.

Book contribution

• Cooper, K. "?Poverty, Obligation, and Inheritance: Roman Heiresses and the Varieties of Senatorial Christianity in Fifth-century Rome?." In Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage, and Authority in Earaly Christian Rome, 300-900, ed. Kate Cooper and Julia Hillner, 165-189.Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Cooper, K. "`Only virgins can give birth to Christ?: The Virgin Mary and the problem of female authority in late antiquity." In Virginity Revisited: Configurations of the Unpossessed Body (Studies in Gender, Phoenix Supplementary Volumes), ed. Bonnie MacLachlan, Judith Fletcher, University of Toronto Press, 2007.
• Dr Conrad Leyser, Leyser, C., Dr Julia H Hillner, Hillner, J H., Cooper, K. "?Dark Age Rome: An Interactive Topography. A GIS Project of the Centre for Late Antiquity, University of Manchester?." In Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity, ed. W. Bowden/A.Gutteridge/C.Machado, 311-337.Brill, 2006.
• Cooper, K. "?Poteri Invisibili: La matrona cristiana tra obsequium ed autorita legittima all?epoca di sant? Agostino?." In Cristina La Rocca, ed., Impari opportunità: La rappresentazione dell’agire femminile nell’ alto medioevo europeo come strumento di valutazione politica (secoli VI-X), Brepols, 2006.
• Cooper, K. "The Patristic Period." In The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture, Blackwell, 2006.
• Cooper, K. "Household and Empire: The Materfamilias as Miles Christi in the Anonymous Handbook for Gregoria." In Household, Women, and Christinaities, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and Anneke Mulder-Bakker, 91-107.Brepols, 2005.
• Cooper, K. "The Household and the Desert: Monastic and Biological Communities in the Lives of Melania the Younger." In Household, Women And Christianities in Late Antiquity And the Middle Ages, ed. Anneke Mulder-Bakker, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, 11-35.Brepols, 2005.
• Cooper, K. "The Virgin as Social Icon." In Saints, Scholars, and Politicians: Gender as a Tool in Medieval Studies, ed. Mathilde Vin Dijk, Renée Nip, 9-24.Brepols Publishers, 2005.
• Cooper, K. "Ventriloquism and the Miraculous: Conversion, Preaching, and the Martyr Exemplum in Late Antiquity." In Signs, Wonders, Miracles: Representations of Divine Power in the Life of the Church ( Studies in Church History 41), ed. Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory, 22-45.Boydell and Brewer, 2005.
• Cooper, K. "Chastity." In Enclyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, Thompson Gale, 2004.
• Cooper, K. "Empress and Theotokos: Gender and Patronage in the Christological Controversy (Studies in Church History 39)." In The Church and Mary, ed. R. N. Swanson, 39-51.Boydell Press, 2004.
• Cooper, K. "?The Widow as Impresario: Gender, Authority, and Legendary Afterlives in Eugippius? Vita Severini?." In Walter Pohl and Maximilian Diesenberger, eds., Eugippius und Severinus: Der Autor, der Text, und der Heilige, 53-64.Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2000.
• Cooper, K. "Matthidia's Wish: Division, reunion, and the early Christian family in the pseudo-Clementine 'Recognitions." In Narrativity in Biblical and Related Texts, 243 - 264.Leuven: Peeters, 2000.
• Cooper, K. "“Of Romance and mediocritas: Re-reading the Martyr exemplum in the Passio Anastasiae”." In Giulia Barone et al., eds., Modelli di comportamento e modi di santità, 107-123.Rosenberg & Sellier, 1994.

Journal article

• Cooper, K. "Approaching the Holy Household." Journal of Early Christian Studies 15, (2007): 131-42.
• Cooper, Kate. "Closely Watched Households: Visibility, exposure, and private power in the Roman domus." Past & Present 197, (2007): 3-33.
• Dr Conrad Leyser, Leyser, C., Cooper, K. "The Gender of Grace: Impotence, Servitude, and Manliness in the Fifth-Century West." Gender and History 12, (2000): 536 - 551.
• Cooper, K. "The Martyr, the Matrona, and the Bishop: Gender and the rhetoric of allegiance in the Roman 'gesta martyrum'." Early Medieval Europe 8, (1999): 297 - 317.
• Cooper, K. "Contesting the Nativity: Wives, virgins, and Pulcheria's 'imitatio Mariae'." Scottish Journal of Religious Studies 19, (1998): 31 - 43.
• Cooper, K. "The Voice of the Victim: Gender, Representation, and Early Christian Martyrdom." Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library 80, (1998): 147 - 157.
• Cooper, K. "A Saint in Exile: The early medieval Thecla at Rome and Meriamlik." Hagiographica 2, (1995): 1 - 24.
• Cooper, K. "“An(n)ianus of Celeda and the Latin Readers of John Chrysostom”." Studia Patristica 27, (1993): 249-255.
• Cooper, K. "“Insinuations of Womanly Influence: An Aspect of the Christianization of the Roman Aristocracy”." Journal of Roman Studies 82, (1992): 113-127.