Horrors of the Inner Chamber: Temples, Homes, and Secret Atrocities in Late Antiquity

This article addresses a pattern in the representation of the spaces of heathen practice in late antique Christian literature and in the conceptualisation of a necessary response to those spaces. I argue that Christian authors came to regard both temple structures and homes as suspicious enclosures,...

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Main Author: Frankfurter, David 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020
In: Journal of early Christian history
Year: 2020, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 82-107
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
Further subjects:B Menouthis
B domestic
B Temple
B Egypt
B Shenoute of Atripe
B Theodosian code
B House
B Alexandria
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