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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 January 2010
      02 July 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511609879
      9780521862813
      9780521681544
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511609879
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 196 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 196 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Religion, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Key Themes in Ancient History
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    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Religion, Religion: General Interest
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    Key Themes in Ancient History
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    Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds, and Manichees. Richard Finn presents for the first time a combined study of the major ascetic traditions, which have been previously misunderstood by being studied separately. He examines how people abstained from food, drink, sexual relations, sleep, and wealth; what they meant by their behaviour; and how they influenced others in the Graeco-Roman world. Against this background, the book charts the rise of monasticism in Egypt, Asia Minor, Syria, and North Africa, assessing the crucial role played by the third-century exegete, Origen, and asks why monasticism developed so variously in different regions.

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    '… an invaluable introductory work … Finn successfully presents the multitude of practices and beliefs composing the larger ascetic traditions of the Greco-Roman world that Christian asceticism was constructed with and at times constructed against.'

    Source: The Expository Times

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