Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

By Kate Cooper

Book Overview

Following the lives of influential women across the first centuries of the church, Band of Angels tells the remarkable story of how a new way of understanding relationships took root in the ancient world. As Cooper demonstrates, women from all walks of life played an invaluable role in Christianity's growth to become a world religion. Peasants, empresses, and independent businesswomen contributed what they could to an emotional revolution unlike anything the ancient world had ever seen.

By sharing the ideas that had inspired them, ancient women changed their own lives. But they did something more. Their story is a testament to what invisible people can achieve, and to how the power of ideas can change the world, one household at a time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468307401
• ISBN13: 9781468307405
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher