Gruesome deaths and celibate lives : Christian martyrs and ascetics /

This text profiles some of the colourful personalities who emerged from the ranks of the early Christian faithful to seize the imagination of their communities. They achieved this either by their readiness to die for their faith as martyrs or by their efforts to subsume their physical desires and ne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hartney, Aideen M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol Phoenix, 2005.
Colección:Greece and Rome live.
Temas:
30-600
Christian martyrs > Rome > Biography.
Ascetics > Rome > Biography.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Martyrs chrétiens > Rome > Biographies.
Ascètes > Rome > Biographies.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Ascetics.
Christian martyrs.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Religion.
Rome > Religion > History.
Rome > Religion > Histoire.
Rome (Empire)
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pagans and Christians : introduction
  • Periods of persecution
  • The language of suffering and death
  • The survival of the church
  • The rise of the holy person in late antiquity
  • Ascetics and church ministry
  • The female road to redemption
  • 'Illegal' forms of asceticism.

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