The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages

The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change.

• First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism.
• Gives particular attention to the contribution of women to ascetic and monastic life.

Author: Marilyn Dunn
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 03/07/2003
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.03w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781405106412

About the Author
Marilyn Dunn is a graduate of Edinburgh University and a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. She has published work on religious and Byzantine history.