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When Nicola Denzey leads tour groups into the Roman Catacombs, participants are struck by the splendor of the burial chambers—many of which were created by or for women. Yet until Denzey began her research for The Bone Gatherers, no one had ever drawn on this evidence to read into those women's lives. The Bone Gatherers introduces us to these powerful women from the sorrowing mothers and ghastly brides of pagan Rome to the child martyrs and women sponsors who shaped early Christianity. It was often only in death that ancient women became visible—through the buildings, burial sites, and art constructed in their memory—and Denzey uses this archaeological evidence, along with text records, to resurrect the lives of several fourth-century women.

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. . . her densely layered inquiry is insightful and haunting. . . . her densely layered inquiry is insightful and haunting. Unique in its restricted time/place focus, the study probes in-depth with a 21st Century feminist eye. . .

Unique in its restricted time/place focus, the study probes in-depth with a 21st Century feminist eye. . .

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