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In this article, the writer looks at ways in which women affected the history of the Church in the West. The writer discusses their virginity as a model of piety for all society, their participation in preserving learning and the upper-class dominance of church rule-making.

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"The position of women in the formative centuries of the Church was something of a moving target. Precisely how they were to be conceptualized and treated evolved over time. According to Brown the position of women came to be more closely defined beginning in the third century not because there were not social practices and customs reserved to and or concealed from women but because the aristocracy that had embraced Christianity and accepted it as the locus of social as well as spiritual control wanted a universal definition. Previously ..."

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