TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petersen,Joan M.
TI  - Handmaids of the Lord: Contemporary Descriptions of Feminine Asceticism in the First Six Christian Centuries 
T2  - Monastic Studies Series
SN  - 9781607242116
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - RELIGION / Monasticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE --; PUBLISHER'S NOTE --; 1. Feminine Monasticism in the First Six Christian Centuries: An Historical introduction --; 2. Macrina: A Domestic Monastery in Cappadocia --; 3. Ancillae Domini in the Roman Empire: Letters of Saint Jerome to Ascetic Women in the Roman Empire --; 4. Melania the Elder and Melania the Younger: Ascetic Matrons in Egypt and Jerusalem --; 5. Radegunde: A Royal Foundress in Gaul --; Appendix: The Sisters of Sainte-Croix de Poitiers --; Suggestions for Further Reading; restricted access
N2  - Throughout the Christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism. Descriptions of early role-models—Macrina, the two Paulas and Melanias, Radagunde—and others by contemporaries, usually men, provide details of their austerities, their aspirations, and their relationship with the Church and the world, not least with male authority figures
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463218416
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463218416
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ER  -