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Author : Lillian I. Larsen
Release : 2018-08-23
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Monastic Education in Late Antiquity by : Lillian I. Larsen
Download or read book Monastic Education in Late Antiquity written by Lillian I. Larsen. This book was released on 2018-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.
Author : Mateusz Fafinski
Release : 2023-05-31
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by : Mateusz Fafinski
Download or read book Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages written by Mateusz Fafinski. This book was released on 2023-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element will reevaluate the relationship between monasticism and the city in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the period 400 to 700 in both post-Roman West and the eastern Mediterranean, putting both of those areas in conversation. Building on recent scholarship on the nature of late antique urbanism, the authors can observe that the links between late antique Christian thought and the late and post-Roman urban space were far more relevant to the everyday practice of monasticism than previously thought. By comparing Latin, Greek and Syriac sources from a broad geographical area, the authors gain a birds' eye view on the enduring importance of urbanism in a late and post-Roman monastic world.
Author : Paul Dilley
Release : 2017-09-07
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity by : Paul Dilley
Download or read book Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity written by Paul Dilley. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the personal practices and group rituals for monitoring and training the thoughts of ancient Christian monks. It focuses on the earliest sources for communal monasticism, many translated into English for the first time, while drawing on cognitive studies to understand key disciplines like prayer and collective repentance.
Author : Caroline T. Schroeder
Release : 2020-09-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 341/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism by : Caroline T. Schroeder
Download or read book Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism written by Caroline T. Schroeder. This book was released on 2020-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of children in one of the birthplaces of early Christian monasticism, Egypt. Although comprised of men and women who had renounced sex and family, the monasteries of late antiquity raised children, educated them, and expected them to carry on their monastic lineage and legacies into the future. Children within monasteries existed in a liminal space, simultaneously vulnerable to the whims and abuses of adults and also cherished as potential future monastic prodigies. Caroline T. Schroeder examines diverse sources - letters, rules, saints' lives, art, and documentary evidence - to probe these paradoxes. In doing so, she demonstrates how early Egyptian monasteries provided an intergenerational continuity of social, cultural, and economic capital while also contesting the traditional family's claims to these forms of social continuity.
Author : Daniel Folger Caner
Release : 2020-05-12
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Wandering, Begging Monks by : Daniel Folger Caner
Download or read book Wandering, Begging Monks written by Daniel Folger Caner. This book was released on 2020-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority and independence from episcopal control. This book is the first comprehensive study of this type of Christian poverty and the challenge it posed for episcopal authority and the promotion of monasticism in late antiquity. Focusing on devotional practices, Daniel Caner draws together diverse testimony from Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and elsewhere—including the Pseudo-Clementine Letters to Virgins, Augustine's On the Work of Monks, John Chrysostom's homilies, legal codes—to reveal gospel-inspired patterns of ascetic dependency and teaching from the third to the fifth centuries. Throughout, his point of departure is social and cultural history, especially the urban social history of the late Roman empire. He also introduces many charismatic individuals whose struggle to persist against church suppression of their chosen way of imitating Christ was fought with defiant conviction, and the book includes the first annotated English translation of the biography of Alexander Akoimetos (Alexander the Sleepless). Wandering, Begging Monks allows us to understand these fascinating figures of early Christianity in the full context of late Roman society.
