Virgins of God
Subtitle: the making of asceticism in late antiquity
By: Susanna Elm
Series: Oxford classical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780198150442; 9780198149200
Subjects: Religieuze orden; Women in Christianity; Vrouwen; Ascetisme; Sekseverschillen; Asceticism; Monasticism and religious orders for women; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[387]-429 and index.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: 'Virgins of God' : variations of female ascetic life; title: Basil of Caesarea : the classic model; title: In the background : Macrina and Naucratius; title: Homoiousian asceticism; title: Parthenoi, widows, deaconesses : continuing variety; title: Symbiosis of male and female ascetics and the demise of the homoiousian model; title: Canons and papyri; title: Desert mothers and wandering virgins : the Apophthegmata patrum; title: Pachomius and Shenoute : the other classic model; title: 'In the desert and in the countryside, in towns or villages' : the Historia Lausiaca and the Historia Monachorum; title: Athanasius of Alexandria and urban asceticism.