Women in Late Antiquity Pagan and Christian Lifestyles

Name: Women in Late Antiquity Pagan and Christian Lifestyles
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ISBN: 9780198721666

ISBN-10: 0198721668

ISBN-13: 9780198721666

Edition: 1993 (Reprint)

Authors: Gillian Clark

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This book bridges a gap between two traditional disciplines. Since the 1970s, there has been a remarkable outpouring of work on women in antiquity, but women in late antiquity (3rd-6th centuries A.D.) have been far less studied. Classicists have been more concerned with the first two centuries A.D., and theologians have been interested in New Testament, rather than patristic, teaching about women or its social and cultural setting. In this book, Clark offers an introduction to the basic conditions of life for women: marriage, divorce, celibacy and prostitution; legal constraints and protection; child-bearing, health care, and medical theories; housing, housework, and clothes; and the…

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List price: $89.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/7/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Note on Sources and Translations


Abbreviations and Short References


Introduction



Law and Morality



Tolerance, Prohibition, and Protection



Health



Domesticity and Asceticism



Being Female


Conclusion


References


General Index


Index of Women