Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity

ISBN-13: 9780367879242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str.

Ville Vuolanto

Opis

This is the first book to scrutinise the interplay between family, children and asceticism in the rise of Christianity. Drawing on texts of Christian authors of the late fourth and early fifth centuries the volume approaches the study of family dynamics and childhood from both ideological and social historical perspectives. It examines the place of

Spis treści

Approaches and strategies.  Family, kin and the right way of living as a Christian.  Ascetics and the family of Christ: metaphors, family dynamics and continuity.  Chastity as immortality.  Choosing asceticism: demography and decision making in the domestic sphere.  Family economy and the profits of asceticism.  Progeny, reputation and memory. Children, strategies and continuity.  Not all of me will die.

O autorze

Ville Vuolanto is Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Tampere, Finland. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on the history of family and childhood in Roman, late antique and early medieval contexts. He also maintains an extensive online bibliography Children in the Ancient World and the Early Middle Ages.