"From Shame to Sin" by Kyle Harper. A Review
From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity Kyle Harper Harvard University Press 79 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 http://www.hup.harvard.edu/ ISBN 9780674072770; $42.00; June 2013 Assessing Antiquity: 5 of 5 Stars Foucault, Langlands, Williams, Verstraete and Provencal, along with an army of others, have spilt gallons of ink to chronicle and choreograph the tricky and intricate sexual mores of ancient Rome into the Christian era. Kyle Harper, Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma and Executive Director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, has added his voice to the discordant chorus in his 316 page hardback, “From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity.” It is a work written for both the lettered and the thoughtful learner alike. The author is clinical in his approach, analytical in his reading, and fairly impartial...