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Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Life-styles

Door Gillian Clark

Categorie
Vrouwen & Genderstudies
Boeknummer
#404720-ZB27
Titel
Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Life-styles
Auteur
Clark, Gillian
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
USA : Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1993
ISBN10
0198146752
ISBN13
9780198146759
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Originele hardcover met goudopdruk op rug, stofomslag, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 general assumptions about female nature which were discarded at need. Christian and non-Christian literat... (Lees verder)ure, art, and archaeology are used to exemplify both the practicalities of life and the prevailing "discourses" of the ancient world.
Pagina's
158
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 25,00

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