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The Body and Society

Paperback • 2008 • English • 2. edition

The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

By Peter Brown

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About the book

First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians' preoccupations with sexuality and the body in the work of the period's great writers. The Body and Society que...Show more

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ISBN

9780231144070

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

The Body and Society

Format

Paperback

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