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Language: English
Published by Mowbray, 1987
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- Title
- Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources
- Author
- Ward, Benedicta S.L.G.
- Publisher
- Mowbray
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0264667395
- ISBN 13
- 9780264667393
- Item weight
- 204 grams
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.
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About the Author
Benedicta Ward is Reader in the History of Christian Spirituality in the University of Oxford. Her most recent book is Anselm of Canterbury: His Life and Legacy (SPCK 2009). She is a member of the Anglican monastic community of the Sisters of the Love of God.
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