Women of Early Christianity

by Alfred Brittain; Mitchell Carroll

CONTENTS

[I] [II] [III] [IV] [V] [VI] [VII] [VIII] [IX] [X] [XI] [XII] [XIII] [XIV] [XV]

[INTRODUCTION] [PREFACE] [PART FIRST] WOMEN OF THE GOSPEL NARRATIVE WOMEN OF THE APOSTOLIC AGE THE ERA OF PERSECUTION SAINT HELENA AND THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE POST-NICENE MOTHERS THE NUNS OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH WOMEN WHO WITNESSED THE FALL OF ROME WOMEN OF THE FRANKISH CHURCH [PART SECOND] THE EMPRESS EUDOXIA THE RIVAL EMPRESSES--PULCHERIA AND EUDOCIA THE EMPRESS THEODORA OTHER SELF-ASSERTING AUGUSTÆ--VERINA, ARIADNE. SOPHIA, MARTINA. IRENE BYZANTINE EMPRESSES--THEODORA II. THEOPHANO. ZOE. THEODORA III. THE PRINCESSES OF THE COMNENI WOMANHOOD OF THE BYZANTINE DECADENCE