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ISBN10: 1610975820, ISBN13: 9781610975827, [publisher: Wipf and Stock 01/07/2013] Softcover Paperback. New book. Previously published by Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1988. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon. 226 pp. [Eugene, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]
Wipf and Stock, 01/07/Date: 2013. Paperback. New book. Previously published by Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1988. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon. 2013. Wipf and Stock ISBN 1610975820 9781610975827 [US]
Wipf and Stock 01/07/2013 Trade paperback 226. pp. Paperback. New book. Previously published by Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1988. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon.
ISBN10: 1610975820, ISBN13: 9781610975827, [publisher: Wipf and Stock 01/07/2013] Softcover Paperback. New book. Previously published by Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1988. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon. 226 pp. [Eugene, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]
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ISBN10: 1610975820, ISBN13: 9781610975827, [publisher: Wipf And Stock] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Porneia means fornication, unchastity, desire for another's body. Drawing on Roman and Greek works of science, medicine, gynecology, and law and on Christian and pagan religious texts, Aline Rouselle discovers the intimate fears, passions, superstitions, and ambitions of the people of the Mediterranean world during the first four centuries AD.The first part of the book describes Roman notions of male and female sexuality; attitudes to fertility, inheritance, child care, and training; legal restraints on sexual behavior; concubinage and divorce; and the extraordinary rituals of orgy, castration and sacrifice associated with ancient rites of fertility and spirituality. Yet the sexual problems of antiquity will be seen in many respects to be almost exactly those of the contemporary West--from fear of impotence to the concern of parents about teenage misbehavior.The second part of the work is concerned with the impact of Christian ideas upon a settled pagan tradition. Abstinence, once associated with the enhancement of fertility, becomes the key to salvation. The first monastic regimes, and the means by which men and women curtailed and overcame their desire for one another, are described in detail. Centuries of concern with fertility became, in this revolutionary period, an obsession with chastity in this world and a secure ...
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