From the Many to the Few
Kate Cooper reassesses Brent Shaw’s 1994 article on women in the early Church, which reveals a key historical principle.
While Constantine was waging the civil war that would result in his conversion at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, the Christians of Carthage were arguing over how to treat the bones of the holy dead: ‘In AD 312 at Carthage, Lucilla, a wealthy woman of high social standing, refused to apologise for her practice of bestowing a kiss on a holy relic.’
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