The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity by Kate Cooper

The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity

Kate Cooper

192 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous reflective medium-paced
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During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically transformed: the pure but fertile heroines of Greek and Roman romance were replaced by a Christian heroine who ardently refused the marriage bed. ...

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