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Contextualizing Cassian: Aristocrats, Asceticism, and Reformation in Fifth-Century Gaul - Oxford Early Christian Studies Goodrich, Richard J. (Research Fellow, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol)
Contextualizing Cassian: Aristocrats, Asceticism, and Reformation in Fifth-Century Gaul - Oxford Early Christian Studies
Goodrich, Richard J. (Research Fellow, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol)
A study of how John Cassian, a fifth-century Gallic author, tried to direct and reshape the development of Western monasticism. Richard J. Goodrich focuses on how Cassian's ascetic treatises were tailored to persuade a wealthy, aristocratic audience to adopt a more stringent, Christ-centred monastic life.
320 pages, 15 line-drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 2, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199213139 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 310 |
| Dimensions | 145 × 222 × 24 mm · 519 g |
| Language | English |