Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages
Book Details
Author(s)Marilyn Dunn
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN1405106417
ISBN-139781405106412
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
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.
