asceticism
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Sybarite Sarabaites? Monastic pairs in Byzantium from magistra 155 days old
Jon Jarrett had been doing most of this term's blogging on IHR earlier medieval seminars, but we felt that Claudia Rapp on 'Ritual Brotherhood in Byzantium: ...
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The eternal Italian male from magistra 657 days old
From Gillian Clark, Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Life-styles (Oxford, 1993): Remaining at home was not recommended for ascetic men (Jerome, ...
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Prairie Muffins and Asceticism from magistra 814 days old
[ ... ] odd competitive asceticism. One of the useful things about Cooper’s books is she doesn’t assume that Christians or women or Christian women are ...
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Jerome versus the Holy Household from magistra 819 days old
[ ... ] could call the ‘asceticism war’ of the western Roman empire in 380s till the early fifth century. The fourth century had seen major changes to ...
