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The Body and Society

Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

by Peter Brown (princeton University)

  • Hardback
  • 568 pages
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 3.1 cm

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First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians' preoccupations with sexuality and the body in the work of the period's great writers. The Body and Society questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped relationships between men and women, Roman aristocracy and slaves, and the married and the celibate. Brown discusses Tertullian, Valentinus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Constantine, the Desert Fathers, Jerome, Ambrose, and Augustine, among others, and considers asceticism and society in the Eastern Empire, martyrdom and prophecy, gnostic spiritual guidance, promiscuity among the men and women of the church, monks and marriage in Egypt, the ascetic life of women in fourth-century Jerusalem, and the body and society in the early Middle Ages.In his new introduction, Brown reflects on his work's reception in the scholarly community.
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  • Author

    Peter Brown (princeton University)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Columbia University Press

  • Published

    July 2008

  • Edition

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction

  • Weight

    863g

  • Page Count

    568

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780231144063

  • ISBN-10

    0231144067

  • Eden Code

    1190912

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