[PDF.91tc] Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World

Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World

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 | #3791415 in Books |  2008-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.69 x6.00l,.80 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.| A note on Evans's review of Subversive Virtue|By James A. Francis|As the author of Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World (Penn State Press, 1995), I feel I need to alert readers to a peculiarity in the search. Searching the title of this book will also bring up a review by J.A.S. Evans which appeared in the Canadian Journal of History.| ||“Students of the Roman Empire no less than those who are interested in early Christianity will find Francis’s study requisite for comprehending the evolution of the pagan and Christian ascetic movements of late antiquity.”|—Paul B. Har

Much attention has been devoted in recent years to Christian asceticism in Late Antiquity. But Christianity did not introduce asceticism to the ancient world. An underlying theme of this fascinating study of pagan asceticism is that much of the work on Christian "holy men" has ignored earlier manifestations of asceticism in Antiquity and the way Roman society confronted it. Accordingly, James Francis turns to the second century, the "balmy late afternoon of Rome's cla...

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