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The body and society: men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity
Peter Robert Lamont Brown
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Frontmatter (page N/A)
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Preface (page xiii)
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Part ONE FROM PAUL TO ANTHONY (page 3)
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1. Body and City (page 5)
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2. From Apostle to Apologist: Sexual Order and Sexual Renunciation in the Early Church (page 33)
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3. Martyrdom, Prophecy and Continence: Hermas to Tertullian (page 65)
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4. "To Undo the Works of Women": Marcion, Tatian, and the Encratities (page 83)
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5. "When You Make the Two One": Valentinus and Gnostic Spiritual Guidance (page 103)
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6. "A Faint Image of Divine Providence": Clement of Alexandria (page 122)
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7. "A Promiscuous Brotherhood and Sisterhood": Men and Women in The Early Churches (page 140)
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8. "I Beseech You: Be Transformed': Origen (page 160)
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9. "Walking on Earth, Touching High Heaven's Vault": Porphyry and Methodius (page 178)
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10. Church and Body: Cyprian, Mani, and Eusebius of Caesarea (page 190)
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Part TWO ASCETISM AND SOCIETY IN THE EASTERN EMPIRE (page 210)
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11. The Desert Fathers: Anthony to John Climacus (page 213)
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12. "Make to Yourselves Separate Booths": Monks, Women and Marriage in Egypt (page 241)
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13. "Daughters of Jerusalem": The Ascetic Life of Women in The Fourth Century (page 259)
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14. Marriage and Mortality: Gregory of Nyssa (page 285)
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15. Sexuality and the City: John Chrysostom (page 305)
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16. "These Are Our Angels": Syria (page 323)
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Part THREE AMBROSE TO AUGUSTINE: THE MAKING OF THE LATIN TRADITION (page 339)
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17. Aula Pudoris: Ambrose (page 341)
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18. "Learn of Me a Holy Arrogance:" Jerome (page 366)
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19. Sexuality and Society: Augustine (page 387)
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Epilogue Body and Society: The Early Middle Ages (page 428)
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Bibliography (page 449)
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Index (page 495)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 95.3 (Jun. 1990): 791-792 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199006%2995%3A3%3C791%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W |
AJS | 92.1 (Jul. 1986): 211-213 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28198607%2992%3A1%3C211%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P |
CS | 15.3 (May 1986): 489-490 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28198605%2915%3A3%3C489%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B |
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Published: 1988
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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