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Crispina and her sisters : women and authority in early Christianity
Author
Title
Crispina and her sisters : women and authority in early Christianity / Christine Schenk, CSJ.
ISBN
9781506411880 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1506411886 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781506411897
Publication
Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xx, 459 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 27, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-450) and index.
Contents
Women and early Christianity: sociocultural context
Women and early Christianity: female authority opposed
Interpreting early Christian art
Women in catacomb frescos and inscriptions
Commemorating the dead: Roman funerary customs and practices
Crispina and her sisters: portraits on Christian sarcophagi
More portraits on Christian sarcophagi
Women and authority in the fourth century: integrating the literary evidence.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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