Thorns in the flesh : illness and sanctity in late ancient Christianity / Andrew Crislip.

  • Crislip, Andrew T. (Andrew Todd)
Date:
[2013]
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

Physical description

238 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-230) and index.

Contents

Illness, sanctity, and asceticism in antiquity : approaches and contexts -- Asceticism, health, and Christian salvation history : perspectives from the earliest monastic sources -- Paradis, health, and the hagiographical imagination -- Choosing illness : illness as ascetic practice -- Pestilence and sainthood : the great Coptic Life of our Father Pachomius -- Illness and spiritual direction in late ancient Gaza : the correspondence of Barsanuphius and John with the sick Monk Andrew.

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    History of Medicine
    CW /CRI
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780812244458
  • 0812244451