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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
- PUBLISHER'S NOTE
- 1. Feminine Monasticism in the First Six Christian Centuries: An Historical introduction
- 2. Macrina: A Domestic Monastery in Cappadocia
- 3. Ancillae Domini in the Roman Empire: Letters of Saint Jerome to Ascetic Women in the Roman Empire
- 4. Melania the Elder and Melania the Younger: Ascetic Matrons in Egypt and Jerusalem
- 5. Radegunde: A Royal Foundress in Gaul
- Appendix: The Sisters of Sainte-Croix de Poitiers
- Suggestions for Further Reading