Ascetic Piety and Women's Faith: Essays on Late Ancient Christianity
- ISBN-10
- 0889465290
- ISBN-13
- 9780889465299
- Category
- Religion / General
- Pages
- 427
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- E. Mellen Press
- Author
- Elizabeth Ann Clark
Description
This prize-winning text treats the subject of women in the context of the early Christian world, discussing ascetic renunciation and feminine advancement, female monasticism, and patristic exegesis of the story of Eve and Adam and the Song of Songs.
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