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Clarendon Press
Language
English
Pages
443

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Subjects

Religieuze orden, Women in Christianity, Vrouwen, Ascetisme, Sekseverschillen, Asceticism, Monasticism and religious orders for women, History, Femmes dans le christianisme, Histoire, Ascétisme, Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins, Early church, Early church, ca. 30-600

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Turkey, Egypt

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Early church, ca. 30-600

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Virgins of God: the making of asceticism in late antiquity
1996, Clarendon Press
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"Virgins of God": The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford Classical Monographs)
January 31, 1996, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
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Cover of: Virgins of God
Virgins of God: the making of asceticism in late antiquity
1996, Clarendon Press
in English
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Cover of: Virgins of God
Virgins of God: the making of asceticism in late antiquity
1994, Oxford University Press
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Virgins of God: the Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity. Oxford Classical Monographs
1994, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

'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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Includes bibliographical references (p.[387]-429 and index.

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Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford classical monographs

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Dewey Decimal Class
271/.9/0009015
Library of Congress
BV5023 .E45 1994, BV5023

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Pagination
xvii, 443 p. :
Number of pages
443

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OL24755077M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
019815044X, 0198149204
ISBN 13
9780198150442, 9780198149200
LCCN
93036710
OCLC/WorldCat
34879313

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