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ISBN/UID: 9780674011892
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01 February 2004
Description
Although an ascetic ideal of leadership had both classical and biblical roots, it found particularly fertile soil in the monastic fervor of the fourth through sixth centuries. Church officials were increasingly recruited from monastic communities,...
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360 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674011892
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01 February 2004
Description
Although an ascetic ideal of leadership had both classical and biblical roots, it found particularly fertile soil in the monastic fervor of the fourth through sixth centuries. Church officials were increasingly recruited from monastic communities,...