Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity

Kate (Towson State University, Maryland) Wilkinson

Cambridge University Press, 2015

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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.

ISBN-13
9781107030275
ISBN-10
1107030277
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
Publication date
2015-03-30
Pages
186
Dimensions
236x159x18
Weight
404