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'Ville Vuolanto has already made a name for himself as one of the foremost scholars working on the family in Late Antiquity. In his new book, he brings his formidable knowledge of early Christianity and current sociological, historical, and theological methodologies to offer an innovative and sophisticated approach to the study of strategies of continuity among the newly Christianized elites of the late Roman Empire. Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity is a fascinating study of the way elite Christians confronted and ultimately reconciled the competing ideologies of ascetic Christianity and traditional ideas of familial pietas and continuity.' Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University, USA

Ville Vuolanto has already made a name for himself as one of the foremost scholars working on the family in Late Antiquity. In his new book, he brings his formidable knowledge of early Christianity and current sociological, historical, and theological methodologies to offer an innovative and sophisticated approach to the study of strategies of continuity among the newly Christianized elites of the late Roman Empire. It is a fascinating study of the way elite Christians confronted and ultimately reconciled the competing ideologies of ascetic Christianity and traditional ideas of familial pietas and continuity. - Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University, USA Rigorous and rewarding, [this] book is an important contribution to the social history of the late imperial period and to modern discussions of the nature of the Roman family in that age. - K.R.Bradley in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 9, Number 2 (2016) This has been an eagerly awaited book, the author's previous work having already done much to renew approaches to late Roman childhood, especially within the family context... What Vuolanto demonstrates quite convincingly in this book is how the ideological framing of asceticism in that period is what facilitated the transition from Roman to medieval family, by anchoring a very un-Roman practice into traditional Roman discourse about the family. - Arietta Papaconstantinou in Childhood in the Past, Vol. 9, Issue 1 (2016) Vuolanto's study looks at the interaction between familial strategies and the growth of asceticism in Late Antiquity, using a wide range of literary sources and approaches from the study of family history. The result is an innovative book that certainly brings something new to the history of asceticism. - Lucy Grig in Greece and Rome, Vol. 63,

a Ville Vuolanto has already made a name for himself as one of the foremost scholars working on the family in Late Antiquity. In his new book, he brings his formidable knowledge of early Christianity and current sociological, historical, and theological methodologies to offer an innovative and sophisticated approach to the study of strategies of continuity among the newly Christianized elites of the late Roman Empire. Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity is a fascinating study of the way elite Christians confronted and ultimately reconciled the competing ideologies of ascetic Christianity and traditional ideas of familial pietas and continuity.' Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University, USA

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Ville Vuolanto is Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Tampere, Finland. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on the history of family and childhood in Roman, late antique and early medieval contexts. He also maintains an extensive online bibliography Children in the Ancient World and the Early Middle Ages.

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