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The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

Name: The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Peter Brown
ISBN: 9780231061001

Peter Brown

19/10/1988
Columbia University Press

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Résumé

In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practice of permanent sexual renunciation - continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - that developed in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. Brown vividly describes the early Christians and their strange, disturbing preoccupations. He follows in detail the reflection and controversy these notions generated among Christian writers. Among the topics covered are marriage and sexuality in the Roman world, Judaism and the early church, Origen and the tradition of spiritual guidance, sexuality in the desert fathers and Augustine and sexuality. "The Body and Society" is a significant study on sexuality and the family in the ancient world by a renowned scholar. Besides being of great interest to readers in ancient history and early church history, and to classicists and medievalists, it will engage readers concerned with women's studies and the history of sexuality.