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Contextualizing Cassian : aristocrats, asceticism, and Reformation in fifth century Gaul / Richard J. Goodrich.

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Richard J. Goodrich examines the attempt by the fifth-century ascetic writer John Cassian to influence and shape the development of Western monasticism. Goodrich's close analysis of Cassian's earliest work (The Institutes) focuses on his interaction with the values and preconceptions of a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Goodrich, Richard J., 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford early Christian studies.
Subjects:
Cassian, John, > approximately 360-approximately 435.
Monastic and religious life > History of doctrines.
Asceticism > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Gaul > Religion.
Asceticism > Early church.
Religion.
Europe > Gaul.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The world of Gallic asceticism
  • Experientia vs Gallic inexperience
  • Experientia vs other builders
  • Instituta as independent authority
  • Renuntiatio and the rhetoric of renunciatio
  • App. 1 : Cassian of Marseilles?
  • App. 2 : textual problems in De institutis 3.

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