Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics, and the Rise of Christianity by Ville Vuolanto (review)

• Autores: Margaret Y. MacDonald
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 2, 2018, págs. 330-332
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • [...]early Christians inevitably came face to face with the function of children as conveyors of continuity. The remaining chapters shift from a direct focus on ideology to the study of actual adaptation at the level of family life, with analysis of how asceticism was integrated into elite culture and mentality. The final chapter brings the interests of the book in Roman family history and asceticism together, keeping the issue of continuity at the forefront of the discussion and ultimately considering the difference that early Christianity made in the history of children and childhood.