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Edward Gibbon laid the fall of the Roman Empire at Christianity's door, suggesting that 'pusillanimous youth preferred the penance of the monastic to the dangers of a military life ... whole legions were buried in these religious sanctuaries'. This surprising 2007 study suggests that,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, Kate, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Temas:
30 B.C.-476 A.D
Families > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Families > Rome.
Familles > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Familles > Rome.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Civilization > Christian influences
Families
Families > Religious aspects > Christianity
Religion
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Rome > Religion.
Rome > Civilization > Christian influences.
Rome > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-476 (Empire)
Rome (Empire)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Epigraph
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 'The battle of this life'
  • Against luxury: Commodian
  • The miles Christi as a devotional model for christian women
  • Fathers and sons
  • Miles Christi and miles saeculi
  • Poverty, obligation, and inheritance: traditionalist senatorial Christianity during and after the barbarian invasions
  • Ad Gregoriam in Palatio: the senatorial domina as miles Christi
  • The domina at the gate
  • Chapter 2 'The obscurity of eloquence'
  • The 'jewelled style' and the Cento of Proba
  • Prudentius
  • The Aristocratic Laity and the 'Ostrogothic renaissance'
  • Boethius, Cassiodorus, Benedict, Gregory
  • Christian prose and the 'jewelled style'
  • Chapter 3 Household and empire
  • The structure of the late Roman estate
  • Domus and familia
  • The domina as female paterfamilias
  • Obligation and reciprocity: the Bobbio domina
  • Slaves and masters: Ad Gregoriam in Palatio
  • Gregoria and Reginus: Spielregeln for a Christian Aristocracy?
  • The coming Judgement
  • Chapter 4 'Such trustful partnership': the marriage bond in Latin conduct literature
  • Roman marriage in late antiquity
  • From Diocletian to Justinian: the changing balance of power in the late Roman household
  • The early Christian legacy
  • Augustine, Pelagius, and the Latin readers of John Chrysostom
  • Celanthia and Optatus: the permanence of the marriage bond
  • Ad Gregoriam in Palatio and Augustinian mediocritas
  • Chapter 5 The invisible enemy
  • The paradox of invisible powers in early patristic tradition: Tertullian and Cyprian
  • Origen and Ambrose
  • Imitatio
  • The late fourth-century sources
  • Arnobius the Younger
  • The raiment of mortal flesh
  • Appendix. Ad Gregoriam in palatio
  • Chapter 1. That the human race is to be allowed to be tested for a time, so that it may rejoice forever in the future
  • Chapter 2. The nobility of the soul is to be defended
  • Chapter 3. It is through endurance (patientiam) that all virtues are able to exist
  • Chapter 4. What kind of thing in particular is endurance
  • Chapter 5. That the kind of person who disdained the virtue of patience in time of peace is not likely to bear the persecutions of martyrdom successfully
  • Chapter 6. Excepting by the will of God, the wife should not despise the will of the husband in any matter
  • Chapter 7. With respect to what duties and by what judgements a true wife is to be judged
  • Chapter 8. By compliance husbands can be won over by wives, and can be called out to the grace of the Holy Spirit from the traffic of the flesh
  • Chapter 9. It is better to teach the things to be avoided rather than those to be set aright [after the wrong is done]
  • Chapter 10. A viewing-tower is set up in contemplation, ascending which the soul turns its attention either to those winning or to those losing, in order to imitate them
  • Chapter 11. The battle of truth against falsehood
  • Chapter 12. The fight of liberality (benignitas) against avarice
  • Chapter 13. The battle of faithlessness in support of avarice against the despiser of the world (contemptorem mundi)
  • Chapter 14. The battle of abstinence against gluttony
  • Chapter 15. Against desire of the flesh [concupiscentia]
  • Chapter 16. Of endurance
  • Chapter 17. That a woman placed in marriage should search the will of God through His law, and keep the commandments ...
  • Chapter 18. A respectable Christian married woman must be so he.

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