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Authority and asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great / Conrad Leyser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leyser, Conrad, author.
- Series:
- Oxford historical monographs.
- Oxford historical monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asceticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Asceticism.
- Authority--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Authority.
- Monasticism and religious orders--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Monasticism and religious orders.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 221 p.).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid their cloisters. Conrad Leyser shows that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-215) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-154333-0
- 1-280-44583-1
- 1-4237-8599-1
- OCLC:
- 814395924
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