Handmaids of the Lord: Contemporary Descriptions of Feminine Asceticism in the First Six Christian Centuries
Author:   Joan Petersen
Publisher:   Gorgias Press
Volume:   33
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9781607242116


Pages:   441
Publication Date:   30 April 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Handmaids of the Lord: Contemporary Descriptions of Feminine Asceticism in the First Six Christian Centuries


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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 relationship with the Church and the world, not least with male authority figures.

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Author:   Joan Petersen
Publisher:   Gorgias Press
Imprint:   Gorgias Press
Volume:   33
ISBN:  

9781607242116


ISBN 10:   1607242117
Pages:   441
Publication Date:   30 April 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

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