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Tables of Contents for Virgins of God
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps
xiv
Abbreviations
xv
Introduction
1
24
PART I ASIA MINOR
`Virgins of God': Variations of Female Ascetic Life
25
35
Basil of Caesarea: The Classic Model
60
18
In the Background: Macrina and Naucratius
78
28
Homoiousian Asceticism
106
31
Parthenoi, Widows, Deaconesses: Continuing Variety
137
47
Symbiosis of Male and Female Ascetics and the Demise of the Homoiousian Model
184
43
PART II EGYPT
Canons and Papyri
227
26
Desert Mothers and Wandering Virgins: The Apophthegmata Patrum
253
30
Pachomius and Shenoute: The other Classic Model
283
28
`In the Desert and in the Countryside, in Towns or Villages': the Historia Lausiaca and the Historia Monachorum
311
20
Athanasius of Alexandria and Urban Asceticism
331
42
Conclusion
373
14
Select Bibliography
387
44
Index
431