Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity Susanna Elm
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TextLanguage: English Series: Oxford Classical MonographsPublication details: Oxford New York Clarendon Press 1996Description: 443 map ; 22ISBN: - 019815044X
- 9780198150442
- 0198149204
- 9780198149200
- 271/.9/0009015 20
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'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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