Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources (Cistercian Studies Series, 106)

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
• | Publisher: Cistercian Publications
• | Publication Date: November 01, 1987
• | Number of Pages: 128 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0879076062
• | ISBN-13: 9780879076061