Books and Bibliography


Required Books (available for purchase at Gator Textbooks):

Peter Brown, The Body and Society. Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1988)

Elizabeth A. Clark, ed., Women in the Early Church (Collegeville, Minn.:  Liturgical Press, 1984)

Benedicta Ward, Harlots of the Desert. A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Pub., 1987)

Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff, Medieval Women's Visionary Literature (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Barbara Newman, From Virile Woman to WomanChrist (Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995)

*Also, since we will be reading parts of the following three books (all available electronically through the library) and you will have to choose one of them to review for your first paper, you may want to purchase one of these if you can find a used or inexpensive copy:

Peter Brown, The Body and Society. Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1988)

Susanna Elm, 'Virgins of God.' The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiqutiy (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994)

Gillian Cloke, This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, AD 350-450 (Routledge, 1995)

*Some other sourcebooks and studies available electronically from which we will be reading chapters or sections:

Sebastian Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey, trans. and ed., Holy Women of the Syrian Orient (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
Elizabeth Clark, ed., St. Augustine on Marriage and Sexuality (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1997)

Jo Ann McNamara et al, eds., Sainted Women of the Dark Ages (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992)

Caroline Walker Bynum, Jesus as Mother. Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (Berkeley: University of California Press; reprint edition, 1984)

Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast, Holy Fast, The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)