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Susanna Elm

Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity - Oxford New York Clarendon Press 1996 - 443 map ; 22 - Oxford Classical Monographs .

'Virgins of God' : variations of female ascetic life -- Basil of Caesarea : the classic model -- In the background : Macrina and Naucratius -- Homoiousian asceticism -- Parthenoi, widows, deaconesses : continuing variety -- Symbiosis of male and female ascetics and the demise of the homoiousian model -- Canons and papyri -- Desert mothers and wandering virgins : the Apophthegmata patrum -- Pachomius and Shenoute : the other classic model -- 'In the desert and in the countryside, in towns or villages' : the Historia Lausiaca and the Historia Monachorum -- Athanasius of Alexandria and urban asceticism.

019815044X 9780198150442 0198149204 9780198149200

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English


Asceticism
Monasticism and religious orders for women
Monasticism and religious orders for women
Women in Christianity

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