Introduction to the Desert Fathers

Auteur: Wortley, John (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
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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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.
ISBN / EAN 9781108703727
Auteur Wortley, John (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Editeur Cambridge University Press