Women in late antiquity : pagan and Christian lifestyles / Gillian Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Gillian. (E. Gillian), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--To 500.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 158 p., [4] p. of plates ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2023.

Summary:

An introduction to women's lives in the centuries when Christianity became the dominant religion. Law, medicine, and domestic life are the background for general, and still influential, theories about the nature of women.

Contents:

1. Law and Morality

2. Tolerance, Prohibition, and Protection

3. Health

4. Domesticity and Asceticism

5. Being Female.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-155) and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-00479-X

0-19-872166-8

OCLC:

1406784955

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04279 hdl