The Virgin & the Bride – Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (Paper)

TRAMA

During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically transformed: the pure but fertile heroines of Greek and Roman romance were replaced by a Christian heroine who ardently refused the marriage bed. How this new concept and figure of purity is connected with--indeed, how it abetted--social and religious change is the subject of Kate Cooper's lively book.< P>

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780674939509
• Dimensioni: 227 x 11.05 x 174 mm Ø 294 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: black & white illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 192