Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages
Book Details
Author(s)
Marilyn Dunn
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405106417
ISBN-13
9781405106412
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Description
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.
