Handmaids of the Lord : contemporary descriptions of feminine asceticism in the first six Christian centuries / translated and edited by Joan M. Petersen.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: grclat Series: Cistercian studies series ; no. 143.Publication details: Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1996.Description: 441 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0879075430 (hardcover)
- 9780879075439 (hardcover)
- 0879077433 (pbk.)
- 9780879077433 (pbk.)
- Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Sources
- Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
- Ascetics -- Early works to 1800
- Mujeres en el cristianismo -- Historia -- Iglesia primitiva, ca. 30-600 -- Fuentes
- Ascetismo -- Historia -- Iglesia primitiva, ca. 30-600
- Femmes dans le christianisme -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (âEglise primitive) -- Sources
- Ascetisme -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (Eglise primitive)
- Godgewijde maagden
- 270.1082
- BR 195 H236 1996
- 11.51
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Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references.
Feminine monasticism in the first six Christian centuries -- Macrina : a domestic monastery in Cappadocia -- The life of Saint Macrina / by Gregory of Nyssa -- Letters of Saint Jerome to ascetic women in the Roman Empire -- Marcella, Lea, Asella, and Principia -- Paula the Elder -- Demetrias --Paula the Younger and Pacatula -- Melania the Elder / by Palladius -- Melania the Younger / by Palladius -- The life of the holy Melania / by Gerontius -- The life of Saint Radegunde / by Venantius Fortunatus [and] the nun Baudonivia -- The death and funeral of Radegunde / by Gregory of Tours.
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