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Handmaids of the Lord (Hardback)

Contemporary Descriptions of Feminine Asceticism in the First Six Christian Centuries

P&S History > Theology & Religion

Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Monastic Studies Series
Pages: 441
ISBN: 9781607242116
Published: 30th April 2010
Casemate UK Academic

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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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