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Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity

by Susanna Elm
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs Published by : Clarendon Press (Oxford | New York) , 1996, , Illustrator: map ; Physical details: 443 pages, 22 cm. ISBN:0-19-815044-X; 978-0-19-815044-2; 0-19-814920-4; 978-0-19-814920-0.
Subject(s): Asceticism | Monasticism and religious orders for women | Monasticism and religious orders for women | Women in Christianity
Language(s): English
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H134 History of Christianity تاريخ المسيحية Available 26459

'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.

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