Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World by James A. Francis

Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World

James A. Francis

240 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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Much attention has been devoted in recent years to Christian asceticism in Late Antiquity. But Christianity did not introduce asceticism to the ancient world. An underlying theme of this fascinating study of pagan asceticism is that much of the wo...

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