List #2: Desert Saints
Primary Sources:
Anthony.
Athanasius: The Life of Saint
Anthony, translated by Robert
T. Meyer. Ancient Christian Writers
10. Westminster, MD:
Newman Press, 1950.
Anthony.
Vita S. Antonii by Athanasius, translated by H. Ellershaw.
In the Select Library of Nicene and
Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 2nd ser., 5.
Posted independently in the Medieval Source Book;
available online at multiple sites that reproduce the Select Library
collection,
Athanasius of
Jerome, Life of Paul the First Hermit, translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight.
Melania.
Gerontius:
The Life of Melania the Younger,
translated by Elizabeth A. Clark.
Pélagie la Pénitente: Metamorphoses d’une légende.
2
vols.
The Sayings
of the Desert Fathers: The Apophthegmata Patrum
(the Anonymous Series),
translated by Benedicta Ward. London: Mowbrays, 1975.
Most of
Primary Source Collections:
The Desert Fathers,
translated by Helen Waddell.
Early Christian
Biographies, edited by Roy J. Deferrari. Fathers
of the Church 15.
Holy Women of the
Syrian Orient, translated by Sebastian Brock and Susan Harvey.
Western Asceticism,
translated by Owen Chadwick.
The Library of Christian Classics 12.
Secondary Sources
Anson, John.
“The Female Transvestite in Early Monasticism: The Origin and Development
of a Motif.”
Viator 5 (1974): 1-32.
Anson, Peter.
The Call of the Desert: The Solitary Life in the Christian Church.
London: S.P.C.K., 1964.
Brakke, D.
Demons and the Making of the Monk:
Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity.
Brown, Peter.
The Body and Society:
Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity.
Brown, Peter. “The Saint as Exemplar in Late
Antiquity.”
Representations 1 (1983): 1-25.
Caner, Daniel.
Wandering, Begging Monks:
Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity.
Christian
Spirituality: Origins to the
Twelfth Century.
Edited by Bernard McGinn, John Meyendorff, and Jean Leclercq.
World Spirituality: An
Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, vol. 16.
Coliero, E.
“
Cox, Patricia.
Biography in Late Antiquity:
A Quest for the Holy
Dijkstra, J. and M. Van Dijk, eds. The
Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West.
Elliott, Alison
Goddard.
Roads to
Elm, Susanna.
'Virgins of God': The Making of
Asceticism in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.
Frank, Georgia.
The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to
Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. Transformations of the Classical Heritage 30.
Gould, Graham.
The Desert Fathers on Monastic
Community.
Hägg, Tomas, and
Philip Rousseau.
Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late
Antiquity. Transformation of
the Classical Heritage 31.
Harmless, William.
Desert Christians: An Introduction to the
Literature of Early Monasticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Hickey, Anne Ewing.
Women of the Roman Aristocracy and
Christian Monasteries.
Howard-Johnston,
James, and Paul Antony Hayward, eds. The Cult
of the Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1999.
Kaplan, St.
The Monastic Holy Man and the
Christianization of Early Solomonic
Kirschner, Robert.
“The Vocation of Holiness in Late Antiquity.”
Vigiliae Christianae 38 (1984):
339-59.
Krawiec, Rebecca.
Shenoute and the Women of the
White Monastery: Egyptian
Monasticism in Late Antiquity.
Malone, Edward E.
The Monk and the Martyr: The Monk
as the Successor of the Martyr.
Noell, Brian. “Language and
the Reevaluation of Class in the Narratives of Early Egyptian Monasticism."
American Benedictine Review 56
(2005): 387-91.
Pietri, Charles.
“Saints et démons:
L’héritage de l’agiographie antique.”
Santi e demoni nell’alto medioevo occidentale (secoli V-XI).
2 vols. Settimane di studio
del Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo 36.
Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi
sull’alto medioevo, 1989. 1:15-90.,
Rousseau, Philip.
Ascetics, Authority, and the
Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian.
Rousseau, Philip.
Pachomius:
The Making of a Community in Fourth Century
Schein, Sylvia. “The ‘Female-Men of God’ and ‘Men Who Were Women’:
Female Saints and
Stewart, Columba.
Cassian the Monk. Oxford Studies in
Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Tudor,
Adrian P. “Ėrémitisme
et solitude dans la prémière
Vies des Pères.”
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âge
112 (2006): 43-61.
Urbainczyk,
Theresa. Theodoret of Cyrrhus: The Bishop and the
Holy
Ward, Benedicta, ed.
Harlots of the Desert:
A Study of Repentence in Early Monastic Sources.
Cistercian Studies Series 106.
Weingarten, Susan.
The Saint’s Saints:
Hagiography and Geography in Jerome.
Leiden: Brill, 2005.