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The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages
The Emergence of Monasticism From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages
Author: Marilyn Dunn
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the emergence of monasticism from its roots in late antiquity and its transition to the early medieval West. Beginning with the search for individual perfection in the context of the religious and social climate of fourth-century Egypt, it traces the adoption and transformation of mona...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780631134633
ISBN-10: 0631134638
Publication Date: 12/2000
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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