Asceticism and Society in Crisis, Volume 18: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

Asceticism and Society in Crisis, Volume 18: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints

Susan Ashbrook Harvey

248 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

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John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In his major work, The Lives of the Eastern Saints, he recorded 58 portraits of monks and nuns he had known, using the...

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