Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity

This book explores how modesty became a creative and performative mode of being for late Roman Christian ascetic women.

Kate Wilkinson (Author)

9781107030275, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 March 2015

186 pages

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.42 kg

'Wilkinson's candor is here is both refreshing and a touch subversive, a tip of the hat to her resistance, even in the face of self-disclosure, to her work's easy categorization. Sitting self-consciously at the intersection of late ancient studies and historical theology, feminist methodology and inquiries into traditionally anti-feminist subject matters, Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity is part delightful provocation, part apt foray into a new era of scholarship, one committed to blurred boundaries and liminal spaces, without compromising literary, linguistic, and historical rigor. That is, surely, a high aim for any scholar's first monograph, and happily it is not beyon]