Harlots Of The Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources

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.

• Author
• Benedicta Ward

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 128

• Publisher
• Liturgical Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780879076061

• Genres
• religion, christianity, christian, history, spirituality, theology, medieval, feminism

• Release date
• 1987