The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity - Paperback
by Peter Brown
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231144070ISBN-10:231144075UPC:9780231144070Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christianity, Sexuality & Gender StudiesBook Topic:HistorySize:8.98 x 7.10 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.6424Product ID:SCGN51AV54
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity
First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians'...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231144070ISBN-10:231144075UPC:9780231144070Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christianity, Sexuality & Gender StudiesBook Topic:HistorySize:8.98 x 7.10 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.6424Product ID:SCGN51AV54
Peter Brown, formerly professor of classics and history at the University of California, Berkeley, is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University and the most prominent scholar of late antiquity (between 250 and 800 A.D.). He is the author of a dozen books, including Augustine of Hippo, Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman World,...
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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-20th Anniversa Edition
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