Ascetic Piety and Women's Faith: Essays on Late Ancient Christianity (Studies in Women and Religion)

by Elizabeth A. Clark

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889465290
• ISBN13: 9780889465299
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.5"