Women And Modesty In Late Antiquity

This book uses the body of letters and treatises addressed by major Christian thinkers to the women of the Anicia family, as well as comparative evidence from modern Hinduism and Islam, to explore how modesty became a creative and performative mode of being for late Roman Christian ascetic women.

• | Author: Kate Wilkinson
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 30, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 186 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1107030277
• | ISBN-13: 9781107030275