Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity

[Paperback]

by Ville Vuolanto

Author
Ville Vuolanto
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Routledge
Published
December 2019

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£45.42

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity

Today's Price £45.42

Frequently Bought Together

Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity

by Ville Vuolanto

Paperback

Slavery In The Late Antique World, 150 – 700 Ce

by Chris L. de Wet +2

Hardback

Add both to basket for £134.89

Product Description

In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life. The resulting discussions on the right way to live a good Christian life provide us with a variety of information on both ideological statements and living experiences of late Roman childhood. This is the first book to scrutinise the interplay between family, children and asceticism in the rise of Christianity. Drawing on texts of Christian authors of the late fourth and early fifth centuries the volume approaches the study of family dynamics and childhood from both ideological and social historical perspectives. It examines the place of children in the family in Christian ideology and explores how families in the late Roman world adapted these ideals in practice. Offering fresh viewpoints to current scholarship Ville Vuolanto demonstrates that there were many continuities in Roman ways of thinking about children and, despite the rise of Christianity, the old traditions remained deeply embedded in the culture. Moreover, the discussions about family and children are shown to have been intimately linked to worries about the continuity of family lineage and of the self, and to the changing understanding of what constituted a meaningful life.