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Handmaids of the Lord: Holy Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Volume 143

Handmaids of the Lord: Holy Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Volume 143

Peterson, Joan M.

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Series: Cistercian Studies, Book 143

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0879077433
ISBN13: 9780879077433
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: Nov 1 1996
Pages: 444
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.49
Language: English

All around the Roman world--in the Greek East and the Latin West, in Asia Minor, North Africa, Egypt, the Holy Land, Italy, and Gaul--widows, virgins, and sometimes matrons lived ascetic, celibate and devout lives either in community or in their own households. They created a powerful tradition which exerts an influence down to the present time.

We see these women chiefly through the eyes of men who paid them the intended compliment of calling them 'virile', often simultaneously admonishing them to beware the attentions of lecherous men and foolish women. Descriptions of their lives were intended to serve both as a tribute to their 'manly' austerity and as a model to be emulated. In this volume, the only woman's voice is that of a Gallic nun.

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