ACLS Humanities E-Book: Virgins of God: the making of asceticism in late antiquity

Virgins of God: the making of asceticism in late antiquity

Elm, Susanna.

Year: 1996.

Publisher: Clarendon Press.

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Frontmatter

List of Maps

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I ASIA MINOR

1. 'Virgins of God': Variations of Female Ascetic Life

2. Basil of Caesarea: The Classic Model

3. In the Background: Macrina and Naucratius

4. Homoiousian Asceticism

5. Parthenoi, Widows, Deaconesses: Continuing Variety

6. Symbiosis of Male and Female Ascetics and the Demise of the Homoiousian Model

PART II EGYPT

7 Canons and Papyri

8. Desert Mothers and Wandering Virgins: The Apophthegmata Patrum

9. Pachomius and Shenoute: The other Classic Model

10. 'In the Desert and in the Countryside, in Towns or Villages': The Historia Lausiaca and the Historia Monachorum

11. Athanasius of Alexandria and Urban Asceticism

Conclusion

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Virgins of God : the making of asceticism in late antiquity Susanna Elm.

Author:

Elm, Susanna

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Virgins of God : the making of asceticism in late antiquity Susanna Elm.
Elm, Susanna
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

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Subject Headings:

• Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
• Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Turkey -- History
• Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
• Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Egypt -- History

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