TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brakke,David
TI  - Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity
SN  - 9780674028654
AV  - BR190 
U1  - 271/.009/015 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Monastic and religious life-Egypt-History-Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Demonology-Egypt-History of doctrines-Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Spiritual warfare-Egypt-History-To 1500
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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