Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints

Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints

 Susan Ashbrook Harvey

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford

© 1990 The Regents of the University of California

Preferred Citation: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3d5nb1n1/

Preface

Introduction: John's World

I  "These Holy Images"': John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints

II  "Let your Light so Shine Before Men": The Ascetic Vision

III  Amida: The Measure of Madness

IV  Purpose and Places

V  Spirituality and Accountability: Consequences of the Ascetic Vow

VI  Some Implications: The Case of Women

VII  John of Ephesus: Asceticism and Society

Notes

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments