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16%OFFKate Cooper - Virgin and the Bride - 9780674939509 - V9780674939509
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Virgin and the Bride

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Description for Virgin and the Bride paperback. This work looks at the changing concept of the purity of women brought about by the rise of Christianity. Rejecting Roman feminine virtue in its pure, but fertile form, Christianity claimed a moral superiority in its ideals of romance, and portrayed women seeking more spiritual goals. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; HRCC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.

During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically transformed: the pure but fertile heroines of Greek and Roman romance were replaced by a Christian heroine who ardently refused the marriage bed. How this new concept and figure of purity is connected with--indeed, how it abetted--social and religious change is the subject of Kate Cooper's lively book.

The Romans saw marital concord as a symbol of social unity--one that was important to maintaining the vigor and political harmony of the empire itself. This is nowhere more clear than in the ancient novel, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674939509
SKU
V9780674939509
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Kate Cooper
Kate Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Early Christianity, University of Manchester.

Reviews for Virgin and the Bride
Cooper's focus...is the tension between virginity and marriage as Christian ideals during the rise of the ascetic movement, and her main strength is her insistence that theological debates did not take place in a cultural vacuum but within the parameters set by traditional Graeco-Roman views of sexuality. She goes further than many previous writers on this period in her confident ... Read more

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