Name: Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford Classical Monographs) (en Inglés)
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Author: Susanna Elm
ISBN: 9780198150442

portada Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford Classical Monographs) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oup Oxford

Autor

Susanna Elm

Año

1996

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

464

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

019815044x

ISBN13

9780198150442

Categorías

Mundo antiguo
Historia antigua

Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford Classical Monographs) (en Inglés)

Susanna Elm (Autor) · Oup Oxford · Tapa Blanda

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Situated in a period that witnessed the genesis of institutions that have lasted to this day, this path-breaking study looks at how ancient Christian women, particularly in Asia Minor and Egypt, initiated ascetic ways of living, and how these practices were then institutionalized. Susanna Elm demonstrates that―in direct contrast to later conceptions―asceticism began primarly as an urban movement, in which women were significant protagonists. In the process, they completely transformed and expanded their roles as wife, mother, or widow: as Christian ascetics, they became `virgin wives', `virgin mothers', and `virgin widows' - with all the legal and economic implications of such a dramatic shift. As importantly, though, Christian men and women ascetics lived together. As `virgins of God' they created new families `in Christ'. No longer determined by their human bonds or human sexuality, they were `neither male nor female'. Finally, the book demonstrates how ascetic bishops - today known as saints - eventually `reformed' these early models of communal, ascetic life by dividing the `virgins of God' into monks and nuns and thus laid the foundation for the monasticism we know today.