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] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Monastic Studies Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (441 p.) |
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