Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women - Couverture rigide

Cooper, Kate

 
9781468307405: Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
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ISBN 10 : 1468307401 ISBN 13 : 9781468307405
Editeur : Overlook Books, 2013

Synopsis

In this inspiring new history of the early Christian movement, award-winning historian Kate Cooper reveals a vivid picture of the triumphs and hardships of the first mothers of the infant church. As far as recorded history is concerned, women in the ancient world lived almost invisibly in a man's world. Piecing together their story from the few contemporary accounts that have survived requires painstaking detective work, but it can render both the past and the present in a new light.

Following the lives of influential women across the first centuries of the church, Band of Angels tells the remarkable story of how a new way of understanding relationships took root in the ancient world. As Cooper demonstrates, women from all walks of life played an invaluable role in Christianity's growth to become a world religion. Peasants, empresses, and independent businesswomen contributed what they could to an emotional revolution unlike anything the ancient world had ever seen.

By sharing the ideas that had inspired them, ancient women changed their own lives. But they did something more. Their story is a testament to what invisible people can achieve, and to how the power of ideas can change the world, one household at a time.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kate Cooper is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester. Born in Washington, DC and educated at Princeton, Harvard, and Wesleyan universities, she is the author of The Virgin and the Bride and The Fall of the Roman Household. She is the recipient of the Rome Prize and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

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Éditeur
Overlook Books
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1468307401
ISBN 13 
9781468307405
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1468309390 ISBN 13 :  9781468309393
Editeur : Overlook Books, 2014
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