Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity |
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| Author:
| Wilkinson, Kate |
| ISBN: | 978-1-107-03027-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2015 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $95.99 |
Book Description:
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This book uses the body of letters and treatises addressed by major Christian thinkers to the women of the Anicia family, as well as comparative evidence from modern Hinduism and Islam, to explore how modesty became a creative and performative mode of being for late Roman Christian ascetic women.
This book uses the body of letters and treatises addressed by major Christian thinkers to the women of the Anicia family, as well as comparative evidence from modern Hinduism and Islam, to explore how modesty became a creative and performative mode of being for late Roman Christian ascetic women.