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31. Perpetua's Passion

    The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman

    By Joyce E. Salisbury

    Perpetua's Passion studies the third-century martyrdom of a young woman and places it in the intellectual and social context of her age. Conflicting ideas of religion, family and gender are explored as Salisbury follows Perpetua from her youth in a wealthy Roman household to her imprisonment and...

    Published October 6th 1997 by Routledge
32. Constructing Early Christian Families

    Family as Social Reality and Metaphor

    Edited by Halvor Moxnes

    The family is a topical issue for studies of the Ancient world. Family, household and kinship have different connotations in antiquity from their modern ones. This volume expands that discussion to investigate the early Christian family structures within the larger Graeco-Roman context.Particular...

    Published April 23rd 1997 by Routledge
33. Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages

    By Arthur Newton

    Originally published between 1920 and 1970,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to...

    Published March 19th 1997 by Routledge
34. Modelling Early Christianity

    Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in its Context

    Edited by Philip Esler

    Modelling Early Christianity explores the intriguing foreign social context of first century Palestine and the Greco-Roman East, in which the Christian faith was first proclaimed and the New Testament documents were written. It demonstrates that a sophisticated analysis of the context is essential...

    Published December 6th 1995 by Routledge