Tag: Asceticism

Free Download David Ungvary, "Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul "
English | ISBN: 0197600743 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 16 MB
For centuries, the Roman aristocracy encoded its social and cultural superiority in classical poetry. In the late Roman world, however, Christian poets-especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul-began to experiment with poetry as a medium for exploring and asserting ascetic identities which were based on the disciplined rejection of worldly life and set in opposition to secular nobility.

Free Download Gay L. Byron, William S. Love, Vincent L. Wimbush, "Asceticism"
English | 2002 | pages: 673 | ISBN: 0195085353, 0195151380 | PDF | 41,8 mb
From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history. Offering a sweeping view of this elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture, Asceticism looks at the ascetic impulse from a unique vantage point. Cross-cultural, cross-religious, and multidisciplinary in nature, these essays provide a broad historical and comparative perspective on asceticism-a subject rarely studied outside the context of individual religious traditions. The work represents the input of more than forty preeminent scholars in a wide range of fields and disciplines, and analyzes asceticism from antiquity to the present in European, Near Eastern, African, Asian, and North American settings.

Free Download Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World by Richard Finn
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0521681545 | 196 Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine.

Free Download Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural Interaction Between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity
by Emma Loosley Leeming
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9004373632 | 254 Pages | True PDF | 17.7 MB