Children And Asceticism In Late Antiquity
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Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity Continuity Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity
Author | : Ville Vuolanto |
Publsiher | : Lund Humphries Publishers |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472414373 |
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This is the first book to scrutinise the interplay between family, children and asceticism in the rise of Christianity. Drawing on texts of Christian authors of the late fourth and early fifth centuries the volume approaches the study of family dynamics and childhood from both ideological and social historical perspectives. It examines the place of children in the family in Christian ideology and explores how families in the late Roman world adapted these ideals in practice.
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity
Author | : Ville Vuolanto |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317167860 |
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In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life. The resulting discussions on the right way to live a good Christian life provide us with a variety of information on both ideological statements and living experiences of late Roman childhood. This is the first book to scrutinise the interplay between family, children and asceticism in the rise of Christianity. Drawing on texts of Christian authors of the late fourth and early fifth centuries the volume approaches the study of family dynamics and childhood from both ideological and social historical perspectives. It examines the place of children in the family in Christian ideology and explores how families in the late Roman world adapted these ideals in practice. Offering fresh viewpoints to current scholarship Ville Vuolanto demonstrates that there were many continuities in Roman ways of thinking about children and, despite the rise of Christianity, the old traditions remained deeply embedded in the culture. Moreover, the discussions about family and children are shown to have been intimately linked to worries about the continuity of family lineage and of the self, and to the changing understanding of what constituted a meaningful life.
Virgins of God The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity
Author | : Susanna Elm |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1994-09-15 |
Genre | : Asceticism |
ISBN | : 9780191591631 |
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Many of the institutions fundamental to the role of men and women in society today were formed in late antiquity. This path-breaking study offers a comprehensive look at how Christian women of this time initiated alternative, ascetic ways of living, both with and without men. The author studies how these practices were institutionalized, and why later they were either eliminated or transformed by a new Christian Roman elite of men we now think of as the founding fathers of monasticism. - ;Situated in a period that witnessed the genesis of institutions fundamental to this day, this path-breaking study offers a comprehensive look at how ancient Christian women initiated ascetic ways of living, and how these practices were then institutionalized. Using the organization of female asceticism in Asia Minor and Egypt as a lever, the author demonstrates that - in direct contrast to later conceptions - asceticism began primarly as an urban movement. Crucially, it also originated with men and women living together, varying the model of the family. The book then traces how, in the course of the fourth century, these early organizational forms underwent a transformation. Concurrent with the doctrinal struggles to redefine the Trinity, and with the formation of a new Christian --eacute--;lite, men such as Basil of Caesarea changed the institutional configuration of ascetic life in common: they emphasized the segregation of the sexes, and the supremacy of the rural over urban models. At the same time, ascetics became clerics, who increasingly used female saints as symbols for the role of the new ecclesiastical elite. Earlier, more varied models of ascetic life were either silenced or condemned as heretical; and those who had been in fact their reformers became known as the founding fathers of monasticism. -
Repentance in Late Antiquity
Author | : Alexis Torrance |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199665365 |
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This study provides a fresh perspective on the concept of repentance in early Christianity. Alexis Torrance focuses on writings by several ascetic theologians of the fifth to seventh centuries, and also examines texts from Scripture, early Christian treatises and homilies, apocalyptic material, and canonical literature.
Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism
Author | : Caroline T. Schroeder |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107156876 |
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Early Christian asceticism emphasized renunciation of family, while Egyptian monks in late antiquity cared for children.
Norm and Exercise
Author | : Roberto Alciati |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 3515121587 |
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Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World
Author | : Christian Laes,Ville Vuolanto |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2016-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317175506 |
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Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World explores what it meant to be a child in the Roman world - what were children’s concerns, interests and beliefs - and whether we can find traces of children’s own cultures. By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. The volume brings together scholars of archaeology and material culture, classicists, ancient historians, theologians, and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism, all of whom have long been involved in the study of the social and cultural history of children. The topics discussed include children's living environments; clothing; childhood care; social relations; leisure and play; health and disability; upbringing and schooling; and children's experiences of death. While the main focus of the volume is on Late Antiquity its coverage begins with the early Roman Empire, and extends to the early ninth century CE. The result is the first book-length scrutiny of the agency and experience of pre-modern children.
Social Control in Late Antiquity
Author | : Kate Cooper,Jamie Wood |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108479394 |
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Explores how in late antiquity women, slaves, and children claimed agency in small-scale communities despite intimidation by the powerful.