RT Book
T1 Children and family in late antique Egyptian monasticism
A1 Schroeder, Caroline T. 1971-
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1695579321
AB "In the 300s, Christians in Egypt and all over the Roman Empire came to the Nile Valley and outlying deserts to become monks, men as well as women. The rhetoric of this movement emphasized a retreat into the wilderness, a retreat away from the city, family, and property - everything one had. Perhaps the most famous passage in monastic hagiography evokes this renunciation of family. Athanasius, author of the Life of Antony, declared that so many people had come to Egypt to become monks that the desert had transformed into a well-populated community:"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BR195.C46
SN 9781107156876
K1 Christian children : Religious life : History : To 1500
K1 Children : Egypt : History : To 1500
K1 Families : Egypt : History : To 1500
K1 Church History : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600