Women's Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor: In the First Two Centuries C.E.

by Katherine Bain

Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed "womens roles" in the Roman worlddiscussions that have relied too much on elite literary sources, in her viewKatherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E. Her findings suggest that outside of the prescriptive lenses of the upper classes, women were described, in honorary and funerary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451469926
• ISBN13: 9781451469929
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"