Beauty consuming itself like incense burnt before God in solitude: these stories of penitent women from the fourth- century egyptian desert fascinated Christians in antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages.
Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources (Cistercian Studies Series, 106)
Benedicta Ward
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- UPC:
- 9780879076061
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 1987-11-01
- Author:
- Benedicta Ward
- Language:
- latin,english
- Edition:
- unknown