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<p><b>The Asketikon of St Basil the Great</b> comprises a new English translation and studies which re-examine the emergence of monasticism in Asia Minor. The <b>Regula Basilii</b>, translated by Rufinus from Basil's Small Asketikon, is closely compared with the Greek text of the longer edition, as a means to tracing the development of ideas. Silvas concludes that the antecedents of the monastic community of the Great Asketikon are best sought not in some kind of sub-orthodox <b>modus vivendi</b> of male and female ascetics living together and increasingly curbed by an emerging neo-Nicene orthodoxy less favourable to women ('homoiousian asceticism'), but in the local domestic ascetic movement in Anatolia as typified in the developments at Annisa under the leadership of Makrina.</p>

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Author

Anna M. Silvas

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199273515

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Philosophy