The Body and Society by Peter Brown, Peter Brown
The Body and Society

Peter Brown, Peter Brown

The Body and Society

Peter Brown, Peter Brown

504 pages paperback

9 editions

nonfiction history religion sociology informative slow-paced
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In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practice of permanent sexual renunciation--continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity--that developed in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. Brown vividly describes the e...

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