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Virgins of God: the making of asceticism in late antiquity

Susanna Elm 1996 © Oxford University Press
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  • 9780198150442 (paper)
  • 9780198149200 (hardcover)
  • 9780191591631 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: Ancient to 400 C.E.
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Maps (page xiv)
  • Abbreviations (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART I ASIA MINOR
    • 1. 'Virgins of God': Variations of Female Ascetic Life (page 25)
    • 2. Basil of Caesarea: The Classic Model (page 60)
    • 3. In the Background: Macrina and Naucratius (page 78)
    • 4. Homoiousian Asceticism (page 106)
    • 5. Parthenoi, Widows, Deaconesses: Continuing Variety (page 137)
    • 6. Symbiosis of Male and Female Ascetics and the Demise of the Homoiousian Model (page 184)
  • PART II EGYPT
    • 7 Canons and Papyri (page 227)
    • 8. Desert Mothers and Wandering Virgins: The Apophthegmata Patrum (page 253)
    • 9. Pachomius and Shenoute: The other Classic Model (page 283)
    • 10. 'In the Desert and in the Countryside, in Towns or Villages': The Historia Lausiaca and the Historia Monachorum (page 311)
    • 11. Athanasius of Alexandria and Urban Asceticism (page 331)
    • Conclusion (page 373)
  • Select Bibliography (page 387)
  • Index (page 431)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 101.2 (Apr. 1996): 460-461 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199604%29101%3A2%3C460%3A%22OGTMO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
JRS 85 (1995): 344 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0075-4358%281995%2985%3C344%3AVOGTMO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
JECS 4.4 (1996): 576-578 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_early_christian_studies/v004/4.4br_elm.html
BMCR 95.04.07 (1995) http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1995/95.04.07.html
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