An Introduction to the Desert Fathers
John (University of Manitoba, Canada) Wortley
Cambridge University Press, 2019
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An accessible introduction exploring how the earliest Christian monks lived and taught in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth to the seventh centuries AD, using their own tales and sayings. Shows the gradual transformation of their essentially solitary existence into communal co-existence which defined the monasteries of the Middle Ages.
- ISBN-13
- 9781108481021
- ISBN-10
- 1108481027
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2019
- Publication date
- 2019-06-06
- Pages
- 208
- Dimensions
- 160x234x13
- Weight
- 426