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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019815044X
ISBN-13
9780198150442
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038282350
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
462 Pages
Publication Name
&Quot;Virgins of God&Quot; : the Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity
Language
English
Subject
Ancient / General, Religious
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, History
Series
Oxford Classical Monographs
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
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College Audience
Reviews
'a very well researched and documented academic treatise ... It is, I believe, the first comprehensive study of the place of the virgin in antiquity to be written in English ... challenging and exciting reading ... I welcome the publication of this book and recommend it to all students of thehistory of ascetic and community life, as well as to those exercised about the future of the consecrated state.'M. Ruth Bleakley, Fairacres Chronicle, 'Remarkable study...The volume is well written, amply documented and provided with an excellent select bibliography and various indices.'The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 'Elm's is one of the most important studies of early Christian asceticism in the twentieth century. Its influence on scholarship pertaining to late antiquity should be enormous. 'Virgins of God' is required reading for anyone interested in early Christianity's development.'Journal of Religion, "Susanna Elm's book is a significant contribution."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Virgins of God is --dare I say it?-- an exciting book to read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. It is scholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also very well written, and that is a gift in itself."--Coptic Church Review "Susanna Elm's book is a significant contribution."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Virgins of God is --dare I say it?-- an exciting book to read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. It is scholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also very well written, and that is a gift in itself."--Coptic Church Review "A very well researched and documented academic treatise....It is, I believe, the first comprehensive study of the place of the virgin in antiquity to be written in English....Challenging and exciting reading...I welcome the publication of this book and recommend it to all students of the history of ascetics and community life, as well as to those exercised about the future of the consecrated state."--Fairacres Chronicle "An impressive number of very good books on early monasticism have appeared in the last five years....To this list we can now gratefully add Susanna Elm's monograph Virgins of God....an exciting book to read. It should be read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. It is scholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also well written, and that is a gift in itself."--Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 'her book is interesting and important in its placing of the development of this institution, as she sees it, in the framework of the internal political struggles of the Church.'Journal of Hellenic Studies, 'an ambitious book ... Instead of three venerable patristic figures, Basil, Pachomius, and Athanasius, as the founding fathers of mansticism, we are now faced with a variegated ascetic tradition in which women and heretics played the pivotal role.'Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "Susanna Elm's book is a significant contribution."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Virgins of God is --dare I say it?-- an exciting book to read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. It is scholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also very well written, and that is a gift in itself."--Coptic Church Review"Susanna Elm's book is a significant contribution."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Virgins of God is --dare I say it?-- an exciting book to read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. It is scholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also very well written, and that is a gift in itself."--Coptic Church Review"A very well researched and documented academic treatise....It is, I believe, the first comprehensive study of the place of the virgin in antiquity to be written in English....Challenging and exciting reading...I welcome the publication of this book and recommend it to all students of the history of ascetics and community life, as well as to those exercised about the future of the consecrated state."--Fairacres Chronicle"An impressive number of very good books on early monasticism have appeared in the last five years....To this list we can now gratefully add Susanna Elm's monograph Virgins of God....an exciting book to read. It should be read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. It is scholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also well written, and that is a gift in itself."--Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 'Elm's is one of the most important studies of early Christian asceticism in the twentieth century. Its influence on scholarship pertaining to late antiquity should be enormous. 'Virgins of God' is required reading for anyone interested in early Christianity's development.'Journal of Religion'an ambitious book ... Instead of three venerable patristic figures, Basil, Pachomius, and Athanasius, as the founding fathers of mansticism, we are now faced with a variegated ascetic tradition in which women and heretics played the pivotal role.'Bryn Mawr Classical Review'an exciting book to read; it should be read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church ... It belongs in every monastic library ... The scholarship is sensible and almost always fascinating.'Coptic Church Review'a very well researched and documented academic treatise ... It is, I believe, the first comprehensive study of the place of the virgin in antiquity to be written in English ... challenging and exciting reading ... I welcome the publication of this book and recommend it to all students of the history of ascetic and community life, as well as to those exercised about the future of the consecrated state.'M. Ruth Bleakley, Fairacres Chronicle'Anyone interested in either gender studies or the Church will at least want to consult 'Virgins of God'... a painstaking detailed account of many diverse sources...'Greece and Rome Reviews 42'her book is interesting and important in its placing of the development of this institution, as she sees it, in the framework of the internal political struggles of the Church.'Journal of Hellenic Studies'Elm has sought out and made available a number of little-known sources which increase knowledge and understanding of the roles of ascetic women, and in this her study is extremely valuable.'Charlotte Methuen, Ecclesiastical Hisotry, Vol. 48, No. 3'Remarkable study...The volume is well written, amply documented and provided with an excellent select bibliography and various indices.'The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 'Anyone interested in either gender studies or the Church will at least want to consult 'Virgins of God'... a painstaking detailed account of many diverse sources...'Greece and Rome Reviews 42, "Susanna Elm's book is a significant contribution."-- Bryn Mawr Classical Review " Virgins of God is --dare I say it?-- an exciting book to read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. It is scholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also very well written, and that is a gift in itself."-- Coptic Church Review "Susanna Elm's book is a significant contribution."-- Bryn Mawr Classical Review " Virgins of God is --dare I say it?-- an exciting book to read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. It is scholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also very well written, and that is a gift in itself."-- Coptic Church Review "A very well researched and documented academic treatise....It is, I believe, the first comprehensive study of the place of the virgin in antiquity to be written in English....Challenging and exciting reading...I welcome the publication of this book and recommend it to all students of the history of ascetics and community life, as well as to those exercised about the future of the consecrated state."-- Fairacres Chronicle "An impressive number of very good books on early monasticism have appeared in the last five years....To this list we can now gratefully add Susanna Elm's monograph Virgins of God ....an exciting book to read. It should be read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. It is scholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also well written, and that is a gift in itself."-- Cistercian Studies Quarterly, "Susanna Elm's book is a significant contribution."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Virgins of Godis --dare I say it?-- anexcitingbook to read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. Itisscholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also very well written, and that is a gift in itself."--Coptic Church Review "Susanna Elm's book is a significant contribution."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Virgins of Godis --dare I say it?-- anexcitingbook to read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. Itisscholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also very well written, and that is a gift in itself."--Coptic Church Review "A very well researched and documented academic treatise....It is, I believe, the first comprehensive study of the place of the virgin in antiquity to be written in English....Challenging and exciting reading...I welcome the publication of this book and recommend it to all students of the history of ascetics and community life, as well as to those exercised about the future of the consecrated state."--Fairacres Chronicle "An impressive number of very good books on early monasticism have appeared in the last five years....To this list we can now gratefully add Susanna Elm's monographVirgins of God....an exciting book to read. It should be read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church, and is especially pertinent for monastics. It belongs in every monastic library. It is scholarly, but the scholarship is sensible, and almost always fascinating. The book is also well written, and that is a gift in itself."--Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 'Elm has sought out and made available a number of little-known sources which increase knowledge and understanding of the roles of ascetic women, and in this her study is extremely valuable.'Charlotte Methuen, Ecclesiastical Hisotry, Vol. 48, No. 3, 'an exciting book to read; it should be read by anyone interested in early Church history and the role of women in the early Church ... It belongs in every monastic library ... The scholarship is sensible and almost always fascinating.'Coptic Church Review
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Synopsis
Situated in a period that witnessed the genesis of institutions that have lasted to this day, this path-breaking study looks at how ancient Christian women, particularly in Asia Minor and Egypt, initiated ascetic ways of living, and how these practices were then institutionalized. Susanna Elm demonstrates that--in direct contrast to later conceptions--asceticism began primarly as an urban movement, in which women were significant protagonists. In the process, they completely transformed and expanded their roles as wife, mother, or widow: as Christian ascetics, they became 'virgin wives', 'virgin mothers', and 'virgin widows' - with all the legal and economic implications of such a dramatic shift. As importantly, though, Christian men and women ascetics lived together. As 'virgins of God' they created new families 'in Christ'. No longer determined by their human bonds or human sexuality, they were 'neither male nor female'. Finally, the book demonstrates how ascetic bishops - today known as saints - eventually 'reformed' these early models of communal, ascetic life by dividing the 'virgins of God' into monks and nuns and thus laid the foundation for the monasticism we know today., Situated in a period that witnessed the genesis of institutions fundamental to this day, this path-breaking study offers a comprehensive look at how ancient Christian women initiated ascetic ways of living, and how these practices were then institutionalized. Using the organization of female asceticism in Asia Minor and Egypt as a lever, the author demonstrates that - in direct contrast to later conceptions - asceticism began primarly as an urban movement. Crucially, it also originated with men and women living together, varying the model of the family. The book then traces how, in the course of the fourth century, these early organizational forms underwent a transformation. Concurrent with the doctrinal struggles to redefine the Trinity, and with the formation of a new Christian élite, men such as Basil of Caesarea changed the institutional configuration of ascetic life in common: they emphasized the segregation of the sexes, and the supremacy of the rural over urban models. At the same time, ascetics became clerics, who increasingly used female saints as symbols for the role of the new ecclesiastical elite. Earlier, more varied models of ascetic life were either silenced or condemned as heretical; and those who had been in fact their reformers became known as the founding fathers of monasticism., Many of the institutions fundamental to the role of men and women in today's society have their origins in late antiquity. This revisionist study offers a comprehensive look at how Christian women of this time initiated alternative, ascetic ways of living, both with and without men. The author studies how these practices were institutionalized, and why they were later either eliminated or transformed by a new Christian Roman elite of men now thought of as the founding fathers., Many of the institutions fundamental to the role of men and women in society today were formed in late antiquity. This path-breaking study offers a comprehensive look at how Christian women of this time initiated alternative, ascetic ways of living, both with and without men. The author studies how these practices were institutionalized, and why later they were either eliminated or transformed by a new Christian Roman elite of men we now think of as the founding fathers of monasticism.
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