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Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity - Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity (Paperback)
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Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity - Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity (Paperback)
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In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged
the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life. The
resulting discussions on the right way to live a good Christian
life provide us with a variety of information on both ideological
statements and living experiences of late Roman childhood. 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 children in the family in Christian ideology and
explores how families in the late Roman world adapted these ideals
in practice. Offering fresh viewpoints to current scholarship Ville
Vuolanto demonstrates that there were many continuities in Roman
ways of thinking about children and, despite the rise of
Christianity, the old traditions remained deeply embedded in the
culture. Moreover, the discussions about family and children are
shown to have been intimately linked to worries about the
continuity of family lineage and of the self, and to the changing
understanding of what constituted a meaningful life.
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