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Women and modesty in late antiquity / Kate Wilkinson

Wilkinson, Kate, 1977- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015

ix, 174 Seiten

Englisch

Machine generated contents note: 1. Spectacular modesty; 2. Apparel, identity, and agency: Demetrias dresses herself; 3. Publicity and domesticity; 4. The modest mouth; 5. Performance anxiety: hypocrisy and sincerity in the performance of modesty; 6. Modest agencies; Conclusion.

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 162-170. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

Rezensiert in: Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity / Greschat, Katharina

1-107-03027-7 ; 978-1-107-03027-5

2014043726

OCoLC: 898418399     

OCoLC: 898418399 (aus SWB)     

NW 8100  | NH 8560  | NH 5290      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ1127

305.4

Basisklassifikation: 11.51 (Frühes Christentum) ; 15.07 (Kulturgeschichte) ; 71.33 (Frau) <Soziologie> ; 15.28 (Römisches Reich)

SSG-Nummer(n): 6,12; 1

*Römisches Reich ; Spätantike ; Christin ; Bescheidenheit ; Askese ; Geschichte     Zum Register

*Frühchristentum ; Frau ; Askese ; Bescheidenheit      Zum Register

*Spätantike ; Christin ; Askese ; Bescheidenheit      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Women -- History -- To 1500 ; Modesty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity ; Women -- Social life and customs ; Feminism -- History

"This book offers a fresh approach to some of the most studied documents relating to Christian female asceticism in the Roman era. Focusing on the letters of advice to the women of the noble Anicia family, Kate Wilkinson argues that conventional descriptions of feminine modesty can reveal spaces of agency and self-formation in early Christian women's lives. She uses comparative data from contemporary ethnographic studies of Muslim, Hindu, and indigenous Pakistani women to draw out the possibilities inherent in codes of modesty. Her analysis also draws on performance studies for close readings of Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome and Pelagius. The book begins by locating itself within the complex terrain of feminist historiography, and then addresses three main modes of modest behavior - dress, domesticity and silence. Finally, it addresses the theme of false modesty and explores women's agency in light of Augustinian and Pelagian conceptions of choice"--

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"Goths invaded Rome in 410 AD, and like many aristocratic families, a household of three wealthy, Christian senatorial women fled across the Mediterranean to their land holdings in North Africa. They bore the name Anici, one of the oldest, richest and most respected Roman clans. The family matriarch Proba and her daughter-in-law Juliana, both widows, traveled with Juliana's young daughter Demetrias. Three years later all were publically acknowledged as exemplary Christian ascetics, and their household was a refuge for ascetic Christian women of different ranks"--

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