Ascetics, Society, and the Desert

Ascetics, Society, and the Desert
Author: James E. Goehring
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781563382697


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Through rigorous examination of papyrological documentary sources, archaeology, and traditional literary sources, James Goehring gradually forces a new direction in understanding the evolution of monasticism. He ably transforms these sources into a clear narrative, thereby infusing the history of Egyptian monasticism with renewed energy.


Ascetics, Society, and the Desert
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: James E. Goehring
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

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Through rigorous examination of papyrological documentary sources, archaeology, and traditional literary sources, James Goehring gradually forces a new directio
Ascetics, society, and the desert : studies in early Egyptian monasticism
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: James E. Goehring
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher:

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`Virgins of God' : The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Susanna Elm
Categories: Asceticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-09-15 - Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Many of the institutions fundamental to the role of men and women in society today were formed in late antiquity. This path-breaking study offers a comprehensiv
Asceticism and Society in Crisis
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-04 - Publisher: University of California Press

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John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In his major work,The Lives of
Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Philip Rousseau
Categories: Asceticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher:

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Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a selective study of Jerome, and then, moving into the fifth century.