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The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change.

First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism.
Gives particular attention to the contribution of women to ascetic and monastic life.

The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages