TY  - BOOK
AU  - Susanna Elm
TI  - Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity
SN  - 019815044X
U1  - 271/.9/0009015 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Clarendon Press
KW  - English
KW  - Asceticism
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders for women
KW  - Women in Christianity
N1  - '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
ER  -