The Emergence of Monasticism

From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages

Marilyn Dunn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

292 Seiten

2003
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-0641-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Preface. List of Abbreviations.

1. The Emergence of Christian Eremiticism.

2. The Development of Communal Life.

3. Women in Early Monasticism.

4. The Meaning of Asceticism.

5. The Evolution of Monasticism in the West.

6. The Rule of St Benedicts and its Italian Setting.

7. Britain and Ireland.

8. Irish peregrini and European Monasticism.

9. Monasticism and Society in the Seventh Century.

Bibliography.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.1.2003
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 231 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4051-0641-7 / 1405106417
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-0641-2 / 9781405106412
Zustand	Neuware