“Kyle Harper’s examination of the traditional narrative of the Christian prudish revolution of late antiquity is a compellingly written book about sex and shame… His interest lies both in undermining various popular and academic stereotypes; that Christianity restrained and confined human sexuality with ponderous religiosity or that the Romans were consummate prudes—and in shaping a new understanding of the course of this sexual transformation.”—Candida R. Moss, Times Higher Education
“Harper puts together materials in ways that highlight some of the important changes in sexual morality that Christianity wrought. In particular, he challenges the tendency set in motion by Veyne, Foucault, and followers that emphasized the similarities between the ‘restraint’ and ‘moderation’ counseled by Roman-era philosophers (‘gloomy Stoics’) and literary men, and the more drastic renunciation preached by (some) Christians.”—Elizabeth Clark, Duke University
REVEALING ANTIQUITY
Revealing Antiquity 20
From Shame to Sin
The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity
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Book Details
EBOOK
$39.95 • £29.95 • €36.00
ISBN 9780674074569
Publication: June 2013
