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Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.
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This book explores the personal practices and group rituals for monitoring and training the thoughts of ancient Christian monks. It focuses on the earliest sour
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This is the first book-length study of children in one of the birthplaces of early Christian monasticism, Egypt. Although comprised of men and women who had ren
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