Contextualizing Cassian: Aristocrats, Asceticism, and Reformation in Fifth-Century Gaul by Richard J. Goodrich

Contextualizing Cassian: Aristocrats, Asceticism, and Reformation in Fifth-Century Gaul

Oxford Early Christian Studies (Hardcover)

Richard J. Goodrich

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Richard J. Goodrich examines the attempt by the fifth-century ascetic writer John Cassian to influence and shape the development of Western monasticism. Goodrich's close analysis of Cassian's earliest work (The Institutes) focuses on his interacti...

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