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Roger Hargreaves - Ascetic Culture: Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau - 9780268033880 - V9780268033880
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Ascetic Culture: Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau

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Description for Ascetic Culture: Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau Hardcover. Editor(s): Leyerle, Blake; Young, Robin Darling. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLB; HRLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.

Ascetic Culture honors Philip Rousseau’s pathbreaking work on early Christian asceticism in a series of essays exploring how quickly the industrious and imaginative practitioners of asceticism, from the early fourth through the mid-fifth century, adapted the Greco-Roman social, literary, and religious culture in which they had been raised. Far from rejecting the life of the urban centers of the ancient world, they refined and elaborated that life in their libraries, households, and communities.

The volume begins with a discussion of Egyptian monastic reading programs and the circulation of texts, especially the hugely influential Life of Antony. A second group ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
430
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268033880
SKU
V9780268033880
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Roger Hargreaves
Blake Leyerle is associate professor of theology and classics at the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews for Ascetic Culture: Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau
"Philip Rousseau has been a pioneer in the renewed study of asceticism and monasticism in ancient Christianity. In this exciting volume, leading historians provide cutting-edge studies of early Christian ascetic culture in its literary, social, and imaginative dimensions. The essays here consistently match the excellence of Rousseau’s own scholarship, and together they make an essential collection for anyone interested in ... Read more

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