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Subversive virtue : asceticism and authority in the second-century pagan world /

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 work on Christian "holy men" has ignored earl...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Francis, James A., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1995.
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