An Introduction to the Desert Fathers

Autori

• John Skylitzes
• John Wortley

Parametri

• Scienze sociali
• Storia

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An accessible introduction exploring how the earliest Christian monks lived and taught in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth to the seventh centuries AD, using their own tales and sayings. Shows the gradual transformation of their essentially solitary existence into communal co-existence which defined the monasteries of the Middle Ages.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2019

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