Autore
Candido, Federica

Titolo
L'elogio della castità e l'obbedienza della sposa al marito: riflessioni intorno alla continenza coniugale tra 4. e 5. secolo
Periodico
Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 23 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 25 - Pagina finale: 42

According to this tenet, the role of women in the early church was circumscribedby specific limitations and in a subordinate position within the marriage.As is known, marriage was for a long time an institution exclusive toaristocratic families alone, granted to those who had a legacy to be passedon. One of the various aspects concerning the phenomenon of ascetic practices,was conjugal continence, which played an important role particularlyin the fourth and fifth centuries. Considering that a wife was subordinateto her husband in a hierarchical relationship in late antiquity, the articlediscusses the ways in which Pelagius, Jerome, Augustine and Gregory of Nazianzusreported the experiences of a continent marriage in which it was thewoman (respectively Celantia, Artemia, Ecdicia and Gorgonia) who decidedto refrain from physical relations with her husband.



SICI: 1126-9200(2020)23:1<25:LDCELD>2.0.ZU;2-6
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