Add to ORKGThis paper provides evidence and understanding of how Syncletica, a fourth and fifth century Alexandrian ascetical woman, developed her ascetical life; first within the movement of consecrated virgins which was evident in the Christian world of her time, and later in life as an anchorite, where she became renowned within the category of a desert mother. This paper stresses the value of using modern historical method to discuss Syncletica, as well the need to understand her within the spiritual uniqueness of the eastern Christian desert tradition, of which is claimed as representative
Outside of hagiography, the evidence for female anchorites in early Christian Egypt remains scarce. ...
It discusses mainly the forms which asceticism took among the desert monastics, the reasons behind i...
This is a study of three literary sources from the late fourth and early fifth centuries CE that dep...
The desert mothers lived between monks in the fourth and fifth centuries. In Apofthegmata Patrum we ...
Macrina was a fourth-century ascetic who was famous for her wise counsel. We know of Macrina through...
The experience of the desert and wildlife was one of the hallmarks of early Christian monasticism. T...
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On the periphery of the Roman empire, the sixth-century desert city of Gaza served as a crossroads b...
This paper will focus on the mobility of ascetic women from late antiquity through to the early Midd...
In this thesis, I have undertaken to analyse the effect upon the cult of the Syrian goddess of the p...
<p>My dissertation explores how constructions of memory, space, and violence intersected in the hist...
Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic m...
In discussing the organization and institutions of fourth century female asceticism I attempt to app...
Starting with the fourth century, when religious travels to the Holy Land had gained popularity, Gre...
The ascetic regimens Rufinus and Jerome advocated to females within and outside their monastic commu...
Outside of hagiography, the evidence for female anchorites in early Christian Egypt remains scarce. ...
It discusses mainly the forms which asceticism took among the desert monastics, the reasons behind i...
This is a study of three literary sources from the late fourth and early fifth centuries CE that dep...
The desert mothers lived between monks in the fourth and fifth centuries. In Apofthegmata Patrum we ...
Macrina was a fourth-century ascetic who was famous for her wise counsel. We know of Macrina through...
The experience of the desert and wildlife was one of the hallmarks of early Christian monasticism. T...
In the fourth and fifth centuries, the Roman empire underwent a series of changes that profoundly af...
On the periphery of the Roman empire, the sixth-century desert city of Gaza served as a crossroads b...
This paper will focus on the mobility of ascetic women from late antiquity through to the early Midd...
In this thesis, I have undertaken to analyse the effect upon the cult of the Syrian goddess of the p...
<p>My dissertation explores how constructions of memory, space, and violence intersected in the hist...
Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic m...
In discussing the organization and institutions of fourth century female asceticism I attempt to app...
Starting with the fourth century, when religious travels to the Holy Land had gained popularity, Gre...
The ascetic regimens Rufinus and Jerome advocated to females within and outside their monastic commu...
Outside of hagiography, the evidence for female anchorites in early Christian Egypt remains scarce. ...
It discusses mainly the forms which asceticism took among the desert monastics, the reasons behind i...
This is a study of three literary sources from the late fourth and early fifth centuries CE that dep...