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![The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity by Kate Cooper](https://rwszupzmsadbjqghhiwjxwntmpecjm.thestorygraph.com/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBM0hVcXc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a9d6b14460a283eecf462db63e8a35e67f472869/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Virgin%20and%20the%20Bride-%20Idealized%20Womanhood%20in%20Late%20Antiquity.jpg)
192 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674939509
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 May 1999
Description
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. ...
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![The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity by Kate Cooper](https://rwszupzmsadbjqghhiwjxwntmpecjm.thestorygraph.com/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBM0hVcXc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a9d6b14460a283eecf462db63e8a35e67f472869/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Virgin%20and%20the%20Bride-%20Idealized%20Womanhood%20in%20Late%20Antiquity.jpg)
192 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674939509
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 May 1999
Description
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. ...