{"title":"The Early Church","description":"Books on the subject of The Early Church","products":[{"product_id":"simplicity-and-humility-in-late-antique-christian-thought-elites-and-the-challenges-of-apostolic-life-hardback-9781108832267","title":"Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought; Elites and the Challenges of Apostolic Life (Hardback) 9781108832267","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSimplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eElites and the Challenges of Apostolic Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines how the apostles' manual labour, simplicity, and humility affected the worldviews of upper-class Christians in Late Antiquity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJaclyn L. Maxwell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108832267, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.45 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Maxwell's book draws attention to many interesting texts and developments and provides insightful interpretations, which makes it an enjoyable and fruitful read. Maxwell interprets a wide variety of texts from different genres and contexts and makes useful and interesting observations.' Florian Zacher, Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe social values of upper-class Christians in Late Antiquity often contrasted with the modest backgrounds of their religion's founders – the apostles – and the virtues they exemplified. Drawing on examples from the Cappadocian Fathers, John Chrysostom, and other late antique authors, this book examines attitudes toward the apostles' status as manual workers and their virtues of simplicity and humility. Due to the strong connection between these traits and low socioeconomic status, late antique bishops often allowed their own high standing to influence how they understood these matters. The virtues of simplicity and humility had been a natural fit for tentmakers and fishermen, but posed a significant challenge to Christians born into the elite and trained in prestigious schools. This volume examines the socioeconomic implications of Christianity in the Roman Empire by considering how the first wave of powerful, upper-class church leaders interpreted the socially radical elements of their religion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Roman and Christian attitudes toward social and economic divisions (first–third centuries CE)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Christian attitudes toward social and economic divisions in Late Antiquity\u003cbr\u003e 3. Tentmakers and fishermen: the apostles' social status in Late Antiquity\u003cbr\u003e 4. Apostolic simplicity and elite education in Late Antique theological controversies\u003cbr\u003e 5. The virtue of humility in Late Antiquity\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: The Early Church [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The Early Church\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20Early%20Church%20%5BHRCC1%5D%22\"\u003eHRCC1\u003c\/a\u003e], Christianity [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Christianity\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Christianity%20%5BHRC%5D%22\"\u003eHRC\u003c\/a\u003e], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Ancient history: to c 500 CE\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Ancient%20history:%20to%20c%20500%20CE%20%5BHBLA%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45908882915608,"sku":"9781108832267","price":70.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108832267i.jpg?v=1696727130"},{"product_id":"an-introduction-to-the-desert-fathers-paperback-9781108703727","title":"An Introduction to the Desert Fathers (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108703727","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAn Introduction to the Desert Fathers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn accessible guide to the lives and teaching of the earliest Christian monks, largely using their own words.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Wortley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108703727, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 June 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.31 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… I commend and recommend this book to anyone interested in discovering more about the early desert monastics.' Tim Vivian, The American Benedictine Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChristian monasticism emerged in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century AD. This introduction explores its origins and subsequent development and what it aimed to achieve, including the obstacles that it encountered; for the most part making use of the monks' own words as they are preserved (in Greek) primarily in the so-called Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Mainly focussing on monastic settlements in the Nitrian Desert (especially at Scêtê), it asks how the monks prayed, ate, drank and slept, as well as how they discharged their obligations both to earn their own living by handiwork and to exercise hospitality. It also discusses the monks' degree of literacy, as well as women in the desert and Pachomius and his monasteries in Upper Egypt. Written in straightforward language, the book is accessible to all students and scholars, and anyone with a general interest in this important and fascinating phenomenon.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Desert Fathers\u003cbr\u003e 2. Beginnings\u003cbr\u003e 3. Becoming a monk\u003cbr\u003e 4. Impediments to progress\u003cbr\u003e 5. The object of the exercise\u003cbr\u003e 6. Prayer\u003cbr\u003e 7. Discretion\u003cbr\u003e 8. Work\u003cbr\u003e 9. Eating and drinking\u003cbr\u003e 10. Hospitality and neighbourliness\u003cbr\u003e 11. Women in the desert\u003cbr\u003e 12. Literacy\u003cbr\u003e 13. Heresy\u003cbr\u003e 14. 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It builds upon previous generations of scholarship while charting a new and intriguing direction in approach to the EH. It takes Eusebius seriously as an innovative literary genius capable of the sophisticated argument that Corke-Webster meticulously extracts from the EH.' Mark DelCogliano, Studies in Late Antiquity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEusebius' Ecclesiastical History, written in the early fourth century, continues to serve as our primary gateway to a crucial three hundred year period: the rise of early Christianity under the Roman Empire. In this volume, James Corke-Webster undertakes the first systematic study considering the History in the light of its fourth-century circumstances as well as its author's personal history, intellectual commitments, and literary abilities. He argues that the Ecclesiastical History is not simply an attempt to record the past history of Christianity, but a sophisticated mission statement that uses events and individuals from that past to mould a new vision of Christianity tailored to Eusebius' fourth-century context. He presents elite Graeco-Roman Christians with a picture of their faith that smooths off its rough edges and misrepresents its size, extent, nature, and relationship to Rome. Ultimately, Eusebius suggests that Christianity was - and always had been - the Empire's natural heir.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I: 1. Eusebius, of Caesarea\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Ecclesiastical History\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 3. Christian intellectuals\u003cbr\u003e 4. Christian ascetics\u003cbr\u003e 5. Christian families\u003cbr\u003e 6. Christian martyrs\u003cbr\u003e Part III: 7. The Church\u003cbr\u003e 8. 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Christopher B. Zeichmann, Canadian Journal of History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is the first book to analyse urban social relations in the eastern Roman Empire through the perspective of one elite family. From the late first to the mid-third century CE, the Vedii and their descendants were magistrates, priests and priestesses of local and imperial cults, and presided over Ephesos' many religious festivals. They were also public benefactors, paying for the construction of public buildings for the pleasure of fellow citizens. This study examines the material evidence of their activities - the buildings with their epigraphic and decorative programs – to show how members of the family created monuments to enhance their own and their family's prestige. It also discusses the inscriptions of the honorific statue monuments raised by the city and its sub-groups for the family in return for their benefactions, arguing that these reflect the community's values and interests as much as they commemorate the benefactors and their families.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Community, identity and memory in Roman Ephesos\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Vedii: a family's history in Ephesos\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!' The Vedii and the goddess of Ephesos\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fun and games in Roman Ephesos: the Vedii, the Agonistic festivals and the imperial cult\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Vedii and the associations of Ephesos\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Vedii and their civic buildings in Ephesos\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions: the Vedii: a family's place in the community and the commemorative landscape of Ephesos\u003cbr\u003e Appendix one: Who's who among the Ephesian Vedii and Flavii Vedii.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: The Early Church [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The Early Church\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20Early%20Church%20%5BHRCC1%5D%22\"\u003eHRCC1\u003c\/a\u003e], Classical history \/ classical civilisation [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Classical history \/ classical civilisation\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Classical%20history%20\/%20classical%20civilisation%20%5BHBLA1%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA1\u003c\/a\u003e], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Ancient history: to c 500 CE\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Ancient%20history:%20to%20c%20500%20CE%20%5BHBLA%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913086361880,"sku":"9781108477871","price":80.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108477871i_b46d71cd-7e75-4ac2-8508-c91739b6d233.jpg?v=1696705950"},{"product_id":"prison-punishment-and-penance-in-late-antiquity-hardback-9780521517515","title":"Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity (Hardback) 9780521517515","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePrison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book argues that late antiquity introduced a legal form of punitive imprisonment, complicating the concept of the 'birth of the prison'.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulia Hillner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521517515, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 June 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e444 pages, 3 maps  4 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.8 cm, 0.77 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… Julia Hillner's inviting style allows the reader to come to her own conclusions with guided direction. Even if one does not always agree with some of the arguments put forth, all the evidence is provided for you, which is an invaluable feature of this book. Finally, due to the vast amount of topics discussed by the author, readers will inevitably be inspired to pick up new threads for further discovery. This book is a wonderful contribution to the field and comes highly recommended.' Jennifer Barry, Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book traces the long-term genesis of the sixth-century Roman legal penalty of forced monastic penance. The late antique evidence on this penal institution runs counter to a scholarly consensus that Roman legal principle did not acknowledge the use of corrective punitive confinement. Dr Hillner argues that forced monastic penance was a product of a late Roman penal landscape that was more complex than previous models of Roman punishment have allowed. She focuses on invigoration of classical normative discourses around punishment as education through Christian concepts of penance, on social uses of corrective confinement that can be found in a vast range of public and private scenarios and spaces, as well as on a literary Christian tradition that gave the experience of punitive imprisonment a new meaning. The book makes an important contribution to recent debates about the interplay between penal strategies and penal practices in the late Roman world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Punishment, Reform and Penance: 1. Philosophical and domestic foundations\u003cbr\u003e 2. Punishment and reform in early imperial legal thought\u003cbr\u003e 3. Christian principles of punishment\u003cbr\u003e 4. Punishment, reform and penance in late Roman law\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Prison and Punishment: 5. The public prison in late antiquity\u003cbr\u003e 6. Private power and punitive confinement\u003cbr\u003e 7. Exile and confinement\u003cbr\u003e 8. Exile, prison and the Christian imagination\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Prison and Penance: 9. Monastic confinement and ecclesiastical justice\u003cbr\u003e 10. Monastic confinement and imperial justice\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I. Places of forced residence\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II. Places of exiles' confinement\u003cbr\u003e Appendix III. 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Hellerman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521090834, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 November 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e252 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.33 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: 'This is a valuable book, … the structure as it stands does give the book an extra possible use as an interesting introduction to, and case-study on, the relevance of honour for the understanding of first-century texts from the Roman Empire.' 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In love with an instrument of torture - how can it be? Cardó's deep study answers the question … This book is one of the few fine examples of lex orandi grounding theological understanding. It undertakes an analysis of textual primary sources in order to offer insights in the field of sacramental theology … The scholar will appreciate the thorough footnotes, but of even more value for every reader is the fact that this book works on our symbolic imagination as well as on our historical faculties. From the richness of liturgical actions and texts, Cardó offers us the cross as a hermeneutical key for the Eucharist for our spiritual enrichment.' David W. Fagerberg, University of Notre Dame, Indiana\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Cross was present at the Eucharist in early Christianity as an idea, a gesture, and an object. Over time, these different actualizations of the quintessential symbol of Christianity have generated important questions about their meaning and function, among them: is the Eucharist a meal and\/or a sacrifice? Can the sign of the Cross illuminate the absence of a Roman epiclesis? Is it pertinent -historically and theologically - to use an altar Cross? In this study, Daniel Cardó explores the relation between the Cross and the Eucharist. Offering a thorough and fresh reading of patristic and Roman liturgical texts, he identifies their emphases and common themes on the Cross and the Eucharist, and demonstrates their significance for the liturgical debates of recent decades.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The Cross and the Eucharist in Patristic Sources: 1. The continuity from the Cross to the Eucharist\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Cross as origin of the Eucharist\u003cbr\u003e 3. The identity of the Eucharistic flesh and blood of Christ with the flesh and blood on the Cross\u003cbr\u003e 4. The sacrifice of the Cross\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Cross at the Eucharist: gesture and object\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Cross and the Eucharist in Roman Liturgical Sources: 6. The early Roman Sacramentaries\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Roman Canon\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Ordines Romani\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Contributions to Contemporary Debates: 9. The unity of the Last Supper and the Cross and the discussion of the Eucharist as meal\u003cbr\u003e 10. The sign of the Cross and the problem of the Roman epiclesis\u003cbr\u003e 11. 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In love with an instrument of torture - how can it be? Cardó's deep study answers the question … This book is one of the few fine examples of lex orandi grounding theological understanding. It undertakes an analysis of textual primary sources in order to offer insights in the field of sacramental theology … The scholar will appreciate the thorough footnotes, but of even more value for every reader is the fact that this book works on our symbolic imagination as well as on our historical faculties. From the richness of liturgical actions and texts, Cardó offers us the cross as a hermeneutical key for the Eucharist for our spiritual enrichment.' David W. Fagerberg, University of Notre Dame, Indiana\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Cross was present at the Eucharist in early Christianity as an idea, a gesture, and an object. 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The identity of the Eucharistic flesh and blood of Christ with the flesh and blood on the Cross\u003cbr\u003e 4. The sacrifice of the Cross\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Cross at the Eucharist: gesture and object\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Cross and the Eucharist in Roman Liturgical Sources: 6. The early Roman Sacramentaries\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Roman Canon\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Ordines Romani\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Contributions to Contemporary Debates: 9. The unity of the Last Supper and the Cross and the discussion of the Eucharist as meal\u003cbr\u003e 10. The sign of the Cross and the problem of the Roman epiclesis\u003cbr\u003e 11. 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MacDonald (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521567282, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 3 October 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 13.8 x 1.7 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Those interested in women's studies will, of course, welcome this book, but any student of the early Church will learn from it. ...this is a good book for scholars and lay people alike.\"    Stephen Benko, The Catholic Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with the pagan critics of the second century CE. 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Celibacy, Women, and Early Church Responses to Public Opinion: 1. Paul's teaching on marriage as a 'conversionist' response to the world\u003cbr\u003e 2. Paul's focus on women holy in body and spirit in 1 Corinthians 7\u003cbr\u003e 3. A focus on women in light of the values of honor and shame\u003cbr\u003e 4. 1 Timothy 5.3-16 - second-century celibate women under public scrutiny\u003cbr\u003e 5. When the private becomes public - contacts between 1 Timothy 5.3-16 and the Acts of Paul and Thecla\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Marriage, Women, and Early Church Responses to Public Opinion: 1.1 Corinthians 7.12-16 - the evangelising potential of household relations\u003cbr\u003e 2. 1 Peter 3.1-16 - recovering the lives of the quiet evangelists\u003cbr\u003e 3. Justin's woman married to an unchaste husband - religious sensiblities and life with a pagan husband\u003cbr\u003e 4. Married life and the social reality of women in the communities of Ignatius of Antioch\u003cbr\u003e 5. From Ephesians 5.21-33 to Ignatius, Letter to Polycarp 5.1-2 - the evolution of authority structures governing the lives of married women\u003cbr\u003e 6. The church-bride and married women as mediators between the church and the world\u003cbr\u003e 7. 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Syriac literature Sebastian Brock\u003cbr\u003e 16. Concluding review: the literary culture of the third century Frances Young\u003cbr\u003e 17. Social and historical setting: Christianity as culture critique Karen Jo Torjesen\u003cbr\u003e 18. Articulating identity Ronald E. Heine\u003cbr\u003e 19. Christian teaching David Dawson\u003cbr\u003e 20. The significance of third-century Christian literature Frances Young\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Foundations of a New Culture: From Diocletian to Cyril: 21. Classical genres in Christian guise: Christian genres in classical guise Frances Young\u003cbr\u003e 22. Arnobius and Lactantius Oliver Nicholson\u003cbr\u003e 23. Eusebius and the birth of Church history Andrew Louth\u003cbr\u003e 24. Fourth-century Alexandrians: Athanasius and Didymus Andrew Louth\u003cbr\u003e 25. Palastine: Cyril of Jerusalem and Epiphanius Andrew Louth\u003cbr\u003e 26. The Cappadocians Andrew Louth\u003cbr\u003e 27. Fourth-century Latin writers: Hilary, Victorinus, Ambrose, Ambrosiaster David G. Hunter\u003cbr\u003e 28. Jerome and Rufinus Mark Vessey\u003cbr\u003e 29. Augustine Henry Chadwick\u003cbr\u003e 30. John Chrysostom and the antiochene school to Theodoret of Cyrrhus Andrew Louth\u003cbr\u003e 31. Cyril of Alexandria Andrew Louth\u003cbr\u003e 32. Hagiography Andrew Louth\u003cbr\u003e 33. Ephrem and the Syriac tradition Sebastian Brock\u003cbr\u003e 34. The literature of the monastic movement Andrew Louth\u003cbr\u003e 35. Women and words: texts by and about women Susan Ashbrook Harvey\u003cbr\u003e 36. Conciliar records and canons Andrew Louth\u003cbr\u003e 37. Social and historical setting R. A. Markus\u003cbr\u003e 38. Articulating identity Lewis Ayres\u003cbr\u003e 39. Christian teaching Frances Young\u003cbr\u003e 40. 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G. Barclay (Edited by), John Philip McMurdo Sweet (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521462853, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 June 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.55 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a well-planned collection reflecting an attempt to cover the major topics of early Christianity in its relation to Judaism.  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Revelation John Sweet\u003cbr\u003e 13. Other early Christian writings: Didache, Ignatius, Barnabas, Justin Martyr Graham Stanton\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Some Early Christian Themes: 14. 'In accordance with the Scriptures' Peder Borgen\u003cbr\u003e 15. Land, sanctuary and worship William Horbury\u003cbr\u003e 16. Monotheism and christology Marinus de Jonge\u003cbr\u003e 17. Apocalyptic, God and the world Christopher Rowland\u003cbr\u003e 18. Atonement and martyrdom Kenneth Grayston\u003cbr\u003e 19. Halakhah and ethics in the Jesus tradition Markus Bockmuehl\u003cbr\u003e Index of names\u003cbr\u003e Index of subjects\u003cbr\u003e Index of texts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: The Early Church [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The Early Church\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20Early%20Church%20%5BHRCC1%5D%22\"\u003eHRCC1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007564796184,"sku":"9780521462853","price":95.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521462853i_6ae305df-97ae-4ffe-9a2b-7a1ef62d4170.jpg?v=1691382461"},{"product_id":"early-christian-women-and-pagan-opinion-the-power-of-the-hysterical-woman-hardback-9780521561747","title":"Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion; The Power of the Hysterical Woman (Hardback) 9780521561747","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEarly Christian Women and Pagan Opinion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Power of the Hysterical Woman\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book studies the public reaction to the church, and its influence on the lives of early Christian women.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMargaret Y. MacDonald (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521561747, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 October 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 14.2 x 2 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Those interested in women's studies will, of course, welcome this book, but any student of the early Church will learn from it. ...this is a good book for scholars and lay people alike.\"    Stephen Benko, The Catholic Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with the pagan critics of the second century CE. 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Celibacy, Women, and Early Church Responses to Public Opinion: 1. Paul's teaching on marriage as a 'conversionist' response to the world\u003cbr\u003e 2. Paul's focus on women holy in body and spirit in 1 Corinthians 7\u003cbr\u003e 3. A focus on women in light of the values of honor and shame\u003cbr\u003e 4. 1 Timothy 5.3-16 - second-century celibate women under public scrutiny\u003cbr\u003e 5. When the private becomes public - contacts between 1 Timothy 5.3-16 and the Acts of Paul and Thecla\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Marriage, Women, and Early Church Responses to Public Opinion: 1.1 Corinthians 7.12-16 - the evangelising potential of household relations\u003cbr\u003e 2. 1 Peter 3.1-16 - recovering the lives of the quiet evangelists\u003cbr\u003e 3. Justin's woman married to an unchaste husband - religious sensiblities and life with a pagan husband\u003cbr\u003e 4. Married life and the social reality of women in the communities of Ignatius of Antioch\u003cbr\u003e 5. 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Journal of Jewish Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eModern life in increasingly heterogeneous societies has directed attention to patterns of interaction, often using a framework of persecution and tolerance. This study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities (Jews, Muslims and pagan Turkic nomads) argues that different degrees of exclusion and integration characterized medieval non-Christian status in the medieval Christian kingdom of Hungary between 1000 and 1300. A complex explanation of non-Christian status emerges from the analysis of their economic, social, legal and religious positions and roles. Existence on the frontier with the nomadic world led to the formulation of a frontier ideology, and to anxiety about Hungary's detachment from Christendom, which affected policies towards non-Christians. 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Non-Christian communities: continuity, transformation, conversion and assimilation\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Islamic studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Islamic studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Islamic%20studies%20%5BJFSR2%5D%22\"\u003eJFSR2\u003c\/a\u003e], Jewish studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Jewish studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Jewish%20studies%20%5BJFSR1%5D%22\"\u003eJFSR1\u003c\/a\u003e], The Early Church [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The Early Church\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20Early%20Church%20%5BHRCC1%5D%22\"\u003eHRCC1\u003c\/a\u003e], Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20history:%20c%20500%20to%20c%201450\/1500%20%5BHBLC%5D%22\"\u003eHBLC\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46251980521752,"sku":"9780521651851","price":99.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521651851i.jpg?v=1691927783"},{"product_id":"saints-miracles-and-social-problems-in-italian-renaissance-art-hardback-9781009300834","title":"Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art (Hardback) 9781009300834","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSaints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReveals how images of saints' miracles shaped perceptions of social problems related to gender, sexuality, and honor in Renaissance Italy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDiana Bullen Presciutti (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009300834, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 May 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages\u003cbr\u003e26.1 x 18.4 x 2 cm, 0.98 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'One of the most engaging and enlightening books about the visual culture of the Renaissance that I've read in a long time. It is learned, readable and innovative. From start to finish the explication of the images is virtuosic.' Mary Laven, Chair of the Faculty of History, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Cambridge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this book, Diana Bullen Presciutti explores how images of miracles performed by mendicant saints-reviving dead children, redeeming the unjustly convicted, mending broken marriages, quelling factional violence, exorcising the demonically possessed-actively shaped Renaissance Italians' perceptions of pressing social problems related to gender, sexuality, and honor. She argues that depictions of these miracles by artists-both famous (Donatello, Titian) and anonymous-played a critical role in defining and conceptualizing threats to family honor and social stability. Drawing from art history, history, religious studies, gender studies, and sociology, Presciutti's interdisciplinary study reveals how miracle scenes-whether painted, sculpted, or printed-operated as active agents of 'lived religion' and social negotiation in the spaces of the Renaissance Italian city.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Vita icon reimagined: new (and old) saints, new (and old) miracles\u003cbr\u003e 3. Storytelling with saints: pictorial narrative and viewing experience\u003cbr\u003e 4. Girls in trouble: gendering possession and exorcism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Assault, amputation, absolution: visualizing the power of confession\u003cbr\u003e 6. Thinking with Julian: marital violence and elite masculinity\u003cbr\u003e 7. Bernardino the Peacemaker: visual hagiography and factional violence\u003cbr\u003e 8. Cannibal mothers: picturing madness and maternal infanticide\u003cbr\u003e 9. Making innocence visible (and audible) in the Basilico del Santo.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology: customs \u0026amp; traditions [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology: customs \u0026amp; traditions\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology:%20customs%20\u0026amp;%20traditions%20%5BJHBT%5D%22\"\u003eJHBT\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology: family \u0026amp; relationships [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology: family \u0026amp; relationships\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology:%20family%20\u0026amp;%20relationships%20%5BJHBK%5D%22\"\u003eJHBK\u003c\/a\u003e], Gender studies, gender groups [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Gender studies, gender groups\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Gender%20studies,%20gender%20groups%20%5BJFSJ%5D%22\"\u003eJFSJ\u003c\/a\u003e], Christian aspects of sexuality, gender \u0026amp; relationships [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Christian aspects of sexuality, gender \u0026amp; relationships\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Christian%20aspects%20of%20sexuality,%20gender%20\u0026amp;%20relationships%20%5BHRCV4%5D%22\"\u003eHRCV4\u003c\/a\u003e], The Early Church [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The Early Church\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20Early%20Church%20%5BHRCC1%5D%22\"\u003eHRCC1\u003c\/a\u003e], Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e], Renaissance art [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Renaissance art\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Renaissance%20art%20%5BACND%5D%22\"\u003eACND\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265419661592,"sku":"9781009300834","price":85.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781009300834i_0c452828-f129-487d-82aa-ea2df9446f20.jpg?v=1696791868"},{"product_id":"the-reception-of-paul-and-early-christian-initiation-history-and-hermeneutics-hardback-9781108471312","title":"The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation; History and Hermeneutics (Hardback) 9781108471312","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory and Hermeneutics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSituates Pauline analysis within the context of early Christian institutions. 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The engagement of secular and religious authorities with the law and the question of what the law actually comprised (Roman law, canon law, national laws, state and royal edicts) are addressed. Bringing together the work of a wide range of scholars, this volume deepens our understanding of interactions between the churches and the legal systems in which they existed in the past and continue to exist now.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e List of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Rosamond McKitterick\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Church and the Law in the Early Middle Ages (Presidential Address) Rosamond McKitterick\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Cherchez la femme!' Heresy and Law in Late Antiquity Caroline Humfress\u003cbr\u003e 3. God's Judgement in Carolingian Law and History Writing (President's Prize) Robert A. H. Evans\u003cbr\u003e 4. 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