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Contextualizing Cassian: Aristocrats, Asceticism, and Reformation in Fifth-Century Gaul (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
Contextualizing Cassian Aristocrats Asceticism and Reformation in FifthCentury Gaul - Oxford Early Christian Studies
Author: Richard J. Goodrich
Richard J. Goodrich examines the attempt by the fifth-century ascetic writer John Cassian to influence and shape the development of Western monasticism. Goodrich's close analysis of Cassian's earliest work (The Institutes) focuses on his interaction with the values and preconceptions of a traditional Roman elite, as well as his engagem...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199213139
ISBN-10: 0199213135
Publication Date: 4/15/2008
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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