Roman Wives, Roman Widows

Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802849717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
During the late Republic and early Empire, the new woman' made her appearance. This was a wife or widow of means who took part in life outside the walls of her house, including wider society, business and extra-marital affairs.

Lives of Roman Christian Women

Author: Carolinne White
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141943378
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
'Perpetua shouted out with joy as the sword pierced her, for she wanted to taste some of the pain and she even guided the hesitant hand of the trainee gladiator towards her own throat' Lives of Roman Christian Women is a unique collection of letters and documents from the third to the fifth centuries, celebrating Christian women from across the Roman Empire. During a crucial period in which Christianity transformed from a persecuted faith to the official religion of the Empire, these writings reveal the women who chose to dedicate their lives to Christ, by embracing martyrdom or by adopting a life of poverty and prayer, renouncing not only wealth but also their duties as wives and mothers.

Ephesian Women in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Perspective

Author: Elif Hilal Karaman
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 3161556534
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
In this volume, Elif Hilal Karaman examines the lives of Ephesian women in their historical and social contexts, considering in particular their roles as mothers, wives, teachers, and individuals in the private and public spheres. She presents Greco-Roman and early Christian sources relevant to Ephesus and relating to women, including more than 300 Ephesian inscriptions, and analyses them comparatively. By doing this she illuminates the impact of early Christianity upon the roles of women. The evidence presented demonstrates the extent to which early Christian authors utilized Greco-Roman cultural elements to construct a social background for the nascent Christian communities for whom they wrote. Elif Hilal Karaman's work thus advocates for the interpretation of early Christian texts in conversation with local archaeological and literary evidence in order to develop more nuanced understandings of the social and historical contexts of these important works.

Divine Honours for the Caesars

Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802872573
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
In this book Bruce Winter explores the varied responses of the first Christians to requirements to render divine honors to the Caesars as the conventional public expression of loyalty to Rome and its rulers. How did they cope with the culture of emperor worship when they were required to give their undivided loyalty to Jesus? First examining the significant primary evidence of emperor worship and the enormous societal pressure the first Christians would have faced to participate in it, Winter then looks at specific New Testament evidence in light of his findings. He examines individual cities and provinces and the different ways in which Christians responded to the pressure to fulfill their obligations as citizens and participate in the conventional expressions of loyalty to the Roman Empire.

Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

Author: Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052168711X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic

Author: Harriet I. Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519

Book Description
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World

Author: Anise K. Strong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107148758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
From streetwalkers in the Roman Forum to imperial concubines, Roman prostitutes defined what it meant to be a 'bad girl'.

Women in Late Antiquity

Author: Gillian Clark
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198721666
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
Although there are many books on women in the ancient world, this is the first to explore in depth what life was like for women in the period of late antiquity (3rd to 6th centuries AD) once Christianity became the dominant religion. It is also unique in focusing on both pagan and Christianlifestyles. Dr Clark provides a fascinating and comprehensive 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 ancient, somestill influential, theories about the nature of women. The author uses a wide range of source material - both Christian and non-Christian writings, art, and archaeology - to illustrate both what life was really like and the prevailing "discourses" of the ancient world.

Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy

Author: Katherine A. McIver
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754669531
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
By looking in a new way at works of art and acts of patronage, the volume restores to visibility some women who were previously invisible in the historical record, and offers a more nuanced understanding of the place of women and gender in early modern Italy.

Against Jovinianus

Author: St. Jerome
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN: 1987022882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.