ancient history
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Patriarchy, monogamy and divorce from magistra 288 days old
It’s a feminist commonplace that most societies, past and present, have been patriarchies, in the sense of being systematically controlled by men and ...
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A fragmented history of lay piety from magistra 489 days old
Kate Cooper’s The Fall of the Roman Household (CUP, 2007) is a very interesting book, but its title is misleading and because of its structure it takes ...
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The eternal Italian male from magistra 663 days old
From Gillian Clark, Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Life-styles (Oxford, 1993): Remaining at home was not recommended for ascetic men (Jerome, ...
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Jerome versus the Holy Household from magistra 825 days old
I’ve been back again reading Kate Cooper’s The Virgin and the Bride, which is not only a very useful book for considering late antiquity, but as I’ve ...
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Haircuts and virtue politics from magistra 924 days old
A few weeks ago there was a row in the US about one of the presidential candidates (John Edwards) having an expensive haircut. If I thought about it ...
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The nastiness of Saint Jerome from magistra 1273 days old
I’ve just had the unpleasant experience of having to read some of Saint Jerome’s tract Against Jovinian (I had to check analogies to some passages from ...
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Jehovah and the drug-crazed elephants from magistra 1333 days old
Today’s quiz question: From which book of the Bible does the following come? Then the king, completely inflexible, was filled with overpowering anger ...
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The (hypothetical) fall and rise of the West from magistra 1430 days old
After all the discoveries of the Forgotten Empire exhibition (see previous post) it was a surprise to go into the exhibition shop and see the prominence ...
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The Persian version from magistra 1430 days old
I've just been to the British Museum exhibition Forgotten Empire (http://www.british-museum.ac.uk/persia/home.htm), a very interesting exhibition on ...
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