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The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages

ISBN: 978-1-405-10641-2

March 2003

Wiley-Blackwell

292 pages

Description

The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change.

  • First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism.
  • Gives particular attention to the contribution of women to ascetic and monastic life.
About the Author
Marilyn Dunn is a graduate of Edinburgh University and a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. She has published work on religious and Byzantine history.
Features

  • First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism.
  • Gives particular attention to the contribution of women to ascetic and monastic life.