Brakke, David. <br/><br/>
Demons and the Making of the Monk :  Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (323 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- I. THE MONK IN COMBAT -- 1. The Single One: The Monk against the Demons -- 2. The New Martyr and Holy Man: Athanasius of Alexandria's Life of Antony -- 3. The Gnostic: Evagrius Ponticus -- 4. The Vigilant Brother: Pachomius and the Pachomian Koinonia -- 5. The Prophet: Shenoute and the White Monastery -- II. WAR STORIES -- 6. "The Holy and Great Fathers": Monks, Demons, and Storytelling -- 7. Ethiopian Demons: The Monastic Self and the Diabolical Other -- 8. Manly Women, Female Demons, and Other Amazing Sights: Gender in Combat -- 9. From Gods to Demons: Making Monks, Making Christians -- Afterword: The Inner Battle -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Drawing on biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, and community rules, Brakke crafts a compelling picture of the embattled religious celibate in fourth- and fifth-century Egypt. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674028654 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Monastic and religious life-Egypt-History-Early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Demonology-Egypt-History of doctrines-Early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Spiritual warfare-Egypt-History-To 1500.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR190 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>271/.009/015