Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity
Susanna Elm
Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity Susanna Elm - 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
93036710
English
Asceticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Monasticism and religious orders for women--History.--Turkey
Monasticism and religious orders for women--History.--Egypt
Women in Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
History of Christianity تاريخ المسيحية
271/.9/0009015
Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity Susanna Elm - 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
93036710
English
Asceticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Monasticism and religious orders for women--History.--Turkey
Monasticism and religious orders for women--History.--Egypt
Women in Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
History of Christianity تاريخ المسيحية
271/.9/0009015