Late Ancient Christianity (A People's History of Christianity) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800697200 ISBN 13: 9780800697204

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2010

Synopsis

The particular excitement of this volume lies in its focus on the everyday realities of Christians' lives in the era of Christian ascendancy and Roman decline. Popular fiction, childrearing and toys, rituals of inclusion, the beginning of veneration of saints and shunning of heretics, the ascetic impulse, food practices all these and more lend color and texture to the story of a "people's" Christianity in this formative stage.

About this title

About the Author:

Virginia Burrus is Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. She was previously professor of Early Church History at Drew University. She is author of numerous articles and four books: The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Pennsylvania, 2004), "Begotten, Not Made": Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity (Stanford, 2000), The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy, (California, 1995), and Chastity as Autonomy: Women in Stories of Apocryphal Acts (Mellen, 1987).

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0800697200
• ISBN 13: 9780800697204
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Burrus Virginia