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The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity

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The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity - Cooper, Kate
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During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically transformed: the pure but fertile heroines of Greek and Roman romance were replaced by a Christian heroine who ardently refused the marriage bed. Cooper explores how this new concept connected with and abetted social and religious change.

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The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity 1999, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674939509

Revised edition

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The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity 1996, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674939493

Hardcover