Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources Volume 106

ISBN-13: 9780879076061 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 124 str.

Benedicta Ward

Opis

Beauty consuming itself like incense burnt before God in solitude: these stories of penitent women from the fourth- century egyptian desert fascinated Christians in antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages.