Handmaids of the Lord: Contemporary Descriptions of Feminine Asceticism in the First Six Christian Centuries

Throughout the Christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism. Descriptions of early role-models-Macrina, the two Paulas and Melanias, Radagunde-and others by contemporaries, usually men, provide details of their austerities, their aspirations, and their relati...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Piscataway, NJ Gorgias Press [2010]
Schriftenreihe:Monastic Studies Series
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Zusammenfassung:Throughout the Christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism. Descriptions of early role-models-Macrina, the two Paulas and Melanias, Radagunde-and others by contemporaries, usually men, provide details of their austerities, their aspirations, and their relationship with the Church and the world, not least with male authority figures
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (441 pages)
ISBN:9781463218416
DOI:10.31826/9781463218416

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