Ascetic Culture – Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau Leyerle Young Hardback

Ascetic CultureEssays in Honor of Philip Rousseau\nAuthor(s): Blake Leyerle, Robin Darling Young\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268033880, 978-0268033880\nSynopsis\nAscetic Culture honors Philip Rousseau's pathbreaking work on early Christian asceticism in a series of essays exploring how quickly the industrious and imaginative practitioners of asceticism, from the early fourth through the mid-fifth century, adapted the Greco-Roman social, literary, and religious culture in which they had been raised. Far from rejecting the life of the urban centers of the ancient world, they refined and elaborated that life in their libraries, households, and communities.\n\nThe volume begins with a discussion of Egyptian monastic reading programs and the circulation of texts, especially the hugely influential Life of Antony. A second group of essays engages the topic of disciplinary culture in asceti.