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In this inspiring new history of the early Christian movement, award-winning historian Kate Cooper reveals a vivid picture of the triumphs and hardships of the first mothers of the infant church. As far as recorded history is concerned, women in the ancient world lived almost invisibly in a man's world. Piecing together their story from the few contemporary accounts that have survived requires painstaking detective work, but it can render both the past and the present in a new light. Following the lives of influential women across the first centuries of the church, Band of Angels tells the remarkable story of how a new way of understanding relationships took root in the ancient world. As Cooper demonstrates, women from all walks of life played an invaluable role in Christianity's growth to become a world religion.



About the Author

Kate Cooper

Kate Cooper is a prize-winning historian with a gift for discovering the hidden stories of every-day life in the ancient world.

Kate's love of story-telling has its roots in a family tradition reaching back for generations in the American South. If you had known her grandmother, you would already know that her many-times-great uncle was Alexander Whitaker, the Virginia clergyman who baptised the Indian Princess Pocahontas. (By the way, this turns out to be true!)

Kate's blog, KATEANTIQUITY looks at the modern world from an ancient historian's point of view, and has readers in over 100 countries. (You can find her blog at kateantiquity.com and on Twitter @kateantiquity.)

Kate's early books were written for a scholarly audience, but with BAND OF ANGELS: THE FORGOTTEN WORLD OF EARLY CHRISTIAN WOMEN she offers a fresh view of early Christianity for the general reader, wrapped up in what Standpoint called a 'pacy tale of heroines.'

Kate lives in Oxford, England with her husband, their two daughters, and two small terriers, Kiki and Pixie, who believe they are St Bernards.



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