Women in Anchoritic and Semi-Anchoritic Monasticism in Egypt: Rethinking the Landscape

Outside of hagiography, the evidence for female anchorites in early Christian Egypt remains scarce. House ascetics in cities survive for us in documentary and other sources, but women monks in non-coenobitic, nonurban environments are more difficult to locate, to the point at which some scholars hav...

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Main Author: Schroeder, Caroline T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
In: Church history
Year: 2014, Volume: 83, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-17
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