Handmaids of the Lord : : Contemporary Descriptions of Feminine Asceticism in the First Six Christian Centuries / / ed. by Joan M. Petersen.

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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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Monastic Studies Series
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t TABLE OF CONTENTS --   |t ABBREVIATIONS --   |t TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE --   |t PUBLISHER'S NOTE --   |t 1. Feminine Monasticism in the First Six Christian Centuries: An Historical introduction --   |t 2. Macrina: A Domestic Monastery in Cappadocia --   |t 3. Ancillae Domini in the Roman Empire: Letters of Saint Jerome to Ascetic Women in the Roman Empire --   |t 4. Melania the Elder and Melania the Younger: Ascetic Matrons in Egypt and Jerusalem --   |t 5. Radegunde: A Royal Foundress in Gaul --   |t Appendix: The Sisters of Sainte-Croix de Poitiers --   |t Suggestions for Further Reading 
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