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Author_Gillian Cloke
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Celibate Marriage
Christian asceticism
Christian Matrons
chrysostom
Continent Marriage
De Ordine
Drawing Back
early church history
elder
Empress Eudocia
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Faltonia Betitia Proba
female sanctity in patristic period
Follow
gender identity religion
Gerontius
Good Life
gregory
Holy Men
john
John Chrysostom
late antiquity
life
Lunatic Fringe
Married Women
melania
Millstone
Mother's Daughter
Mother’s Daughter
nola
nyssa
Nyssa Life
Pagan Counterparts
Patristic Age
Patristic Authors
paulinus
Pause
Roman Empire society
Thecla
Vettius Praetextatus Agorius
Via
women religious leadership
Young Man
younger
Product details
- ISBN 9780415094702
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries.
Gillian Cloke took her research degree on women in the patristic age at St Andrews University. She is currently working as an administrator in Edinburgh.
