Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Demons and the making of the monk [[electronic resource] ] : spiritual combat in early Christianity / / David Brakke



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Brakke David Visualizza persona
Titolo: Demons and the making of the monk [[electronic resource] ] : spiritual combat in early Christianity / / David Brakke Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
Disciplina: 271/.009/015
Soggetto topico: Monastic and religious life - Egypt - History - Early church, ca. 30-600
Demonology - Egypt - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600
Spiritual warfare - Egypt - History - To 1500
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Classificazione: BO 2560
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-294) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. The Monk in Combat -- 1. The Single One: The Monk against the Demons -- 2. The New Martyr and Holy Man: Athanasius of Alexandria's Life of Antony -- 3. The Gnostic: Evagrius Ponticus -- 4. The Vigilant Brother: Pachomius and the Pachomian Koinonia -- 5. The Prophet: Shenoute and the White Monastery -- II. War Stories -- 6. "The Holy and Great Fathers": Monks, Demons, and Storytelling -- 7. Ethiopian Demons: The Monastic Self and the Diabolical Other -- 8. Manly Women, Female Demons, and Other Amazing Sights: Gender in Combat -- 9. From Gods to Demons: Making Monks, Making Christians -- Afterword: The Inner Battle -- Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In this finely written study of demonology and Christian spirituality in fourth- and fifth-century Egypt, David Brakke examines how the conception of the monk as a holy and virtuous being was shaped by the combative encounter with demons. Drawing on biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, and community rules, Brakke crafts a compelling picture of the embattled religious celibate.
Titolo autorizzato: Demons and the making of the monk  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-02865-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454924903321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui