Dawn LaValle Norman (Melbourne Australian Catholic University)

Early Christian Women

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this Element the author argues that genre deeply affects how early Christian female philosophers are characterized across different works. The included case studies are three women who feature in both narrative and dialogic texts: Thecla, Macrina the Younger and Monica.

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Produktdetails

• Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9781009045889
• ISBN-10: 1009045881
• Artikelnr.: 64170862

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Lady Philosophy and Real Female Philosophers; 2. Thecla,
'second to none in philosophy and the liberal arts' (Meth. symp 8.170); 3.
Macrina the Younger, 'who raised herself to the furthest limit of human
virtue through philosophy' (Greg. Nyss. Vit Macr 1.27-29); 4. Monica, who
'grasped the very citadel of philosophy' (Aug. De Beat. Vit. 2.10); 5.
Conclusion.