Handmaids of the Lord: The Lives of Holy Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by

Handmaids of the Lord: The Lives of Holy Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Cistercian Studies

with Joan M. Peterson (Translator)

441 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Throughout the christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism. Descriptions of early role-models 'Macrina, the two Palas and Melanias, Radagunde 'and others by contemporaries, usually men, provide details of ...

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