The Virgin and the Bride
Subtitle: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: August 30, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780674939493
Subjects: Early Church; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Women's studies; Women and literature; Latin authors; Women In Literature; Literary Criticism; History - General History; French; Latin; Literature: Classics; Rome; Ancient - Rome; Women's Studies - History; Religion / Church History; General; Christian literature, Early; History and criticism; Latin Literature
First sentence: "The first without compunction violates his wife, his serving-women, and his attendants, whether young (paedagogia, capillati) or old (exoleti); the second, no longer having the power to give orders outside, in the wider society, no longer has the strength to give them at all: of necessity, he invents for himself a conjugal and sexual morality."