Daily Life in the Early Church: Studies in the Church Social History of the First Five Centuries

by John Gordon Davies

Book Overview

What did the early Christians wear? What did they eat? What did they talk about over the dinner table? What recreations did they enjoy? These are among the questions answered in this study, which reveals the social background to the first five hundred years of the Church's development, through six vividly recounted, biographical portraits. Applying the methods of the social historian to the early Church, the author describes the daily life of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718890191
• ISBN13: 9780718890193
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"