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Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity

By Susanna Elm

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
019815044X, 9780198150442
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
61 MB (63949574 bytes)
Series
Oxford Classical Monographs
Pages
464\465
Topic
Religion
Time added
2018-11-27 06:02:29

Description

Many of the institutions fundamental to the role of men and women in today's society have their origins in late antiquity. This revisionist study offers a comprehensive look at how Christian women of this time initiated alternative, ascetic ways of living, both with and without men. The author studies how these practices were institutionalized, and why they were later either eliminated or transformed by a new Christian Roman elite of men now thought of as the founding fathers.

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