Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Reprentance in Early Monastic Sources (Cistercian Studies) (English and Latin Edition)

Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources By Sister Benedicta Ward, SLG Beauty consuming itself like incense burnt before God in solitude: these stories of penitent women from the fourth- century egyptian desert fascinated Christians in antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. ". . . without question, a book of very great importance for the reader of Christian monastic sources both timely and well done." -Cistercian Studies ". . . this book has a real contemporary interest not only for students of monasticism but for anyone concerned with spirituality." -The Way