The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle AgesISBN: 978-1-4051-0641-2
Paperback
292 pages
January 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: E-book
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The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the
subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social
and religious change.
- First study in any language to cover the formative period of
medieval monasticism.
- Gives particular attention to the contribution of women to ascetic and monastic life.