Handmaids Of The Lord: Holy Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Handmaids Of The Lord: Holy Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Liturgical Press
Country
United States
Published
1 November 1996
Pages
444
ISBN
9780879077433

Handmaids Of The Lord: Holy Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

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Throughout the christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism. Descriptions of early role-models ‘Macrina, the two Palas and Melanias, Radagunde 'and others by contemporaries, usually men, provide details of their austerities, their aspirations, and their relationship with the Church and the world, not least with male authority figures.

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