Introduction The "Wellborn" Few Person and Group in Judaism and Early Christianity Church and Leadership The Challenge of the Desert East and West: The New Marital Morality Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
[Late Antiquity] is a scintillating essay. Brown brilliantly
arranges his intuitions around the central theme of the 'public'
classical city being replaced by the internalized Christian city of
another, non-secular world. That becomes the central pattern of
explanation for changes in attitude to sexuality, and for the
development of unprecedented respect for sexual purity as an
attribute of nuns, monks and bishops.
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