Women in Late Antiquity

Pagan and Christian Lifestyles
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-19-872166-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 240 g

Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks

This book bridges a gap between two traditional disciplines. Since the 1970s, there has been a remarkable outpouring of work on women in antiquity, but women in late antiquity (3rd-6th centuries AD) have been far less studied. Classicists have been more concerned with the first two centuries AD, and theologians have been interested in New Testament, rather than patristic teaching about women, or its social and cultural setting.
In this book, Dr Clark offers an introduction to the basic conditions of life for women: marriage, divorce, celibacy and prostitution; legal constraints and protection; child-bearing, health care, and medical theories; housing, housework, and clothes; and the general assumptions about female nature which were discarded at need. Christian and non-Christian literature, art, and archaeology are used to exemplify both the practicalities of life and the prevailing `discourses' of the ancient world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Gillian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Amongst Gillian Clark's published work is: Women in the Ancient World: Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 21 (Clarendon Press for Classical Association, 1989), and Augustine; The Confessions (Landmark Series, CUP, 1992). She is the translator, with notes and introduction of Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life (Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool UP), and editor of this series. She lives in
Birkenhead.