{"product_id":"late-antiquity-9780674511705","title":"Late Antiquity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the slow shift from one form of public community to another - from the ancient city to the Christian Church. He explains how in the four centuries between Marcus Aurelius (161-180) and Justinian (527-565), the Mediterranean world passed through a series of profound transmutations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eLate Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e] is a scintillating essay. Brown brilliantly arranges his intuitions around the central theme of the 'public' classical city being replaced by the internalized Christian city of another, non-secular world. That becomes the central pattern of explanation for changes in attitude to sexuality, and for the development of unprecedented respect for sexual purity as an attribute of nuns, monks and bishops. -- Thomas Wiedemann * Jact Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    The \"Wellborn\" Few   Person and Group in Judaism and Early Christianity   Church and Leadership   The Challenge of the Desert   East and West: The New Marital Morality    Notes   Bibliography   Acknowledgments   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138140766551,"sku":"9780674511705","price":24.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674511705.jpg?v=1751918161","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/late-antiquity-9780674511705","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}