Handmaids of the Lord: Contemporary Descriptions of Feminine Asceticism in the First Six Christian Centuries

Handmaids of the Lord: Contemporary Descriptions of Feminine Asceticism in the First Six Christian Centuries

Author
Joan M. Petersen (editor)
Publisher
Gorgias Press
Language
English
Year
2010
Page
441
ISBN
9781463218416
File Type
pdf
File Size
30.7 MiB

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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