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Harlots of the Desert: Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources: No. 106 (Cistercian Studies Series) - Softcover
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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.
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. . . without question, a book of very great importance for the reader of Christian monastic sources both timely and well done.Cistercian Studies
. . . this book has a real contemporary interest not only for students of monasticism but for anyone concerned with spirituality.The Way
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Benedicta Ward is Reader in the History of Christian Spirituality in the University of Oxford. Her most recent book is Anselm of Canterbury: His Life and Legacy (SPCK 2009). She is a member of the Anglican monastic community of the Sisters of the Love of God.
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