Palladius has written an important history of early monasticism in Egypt with these biographic sketches or notes on some sixty holy men and women he had met or heard of. The work, dating from 419 or 420, is dedicated to Lausus, the royal chamberlain at the court of Emperor Theodosius II.
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- Lausiac History of Palladius (Texts and Studies: Contributions to Biblical and Patristic L) by Cuthbert Butler in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Essays New and Old by Aldous Huxley in Back Matter
- A History Of Education In Antiquity (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) by H.I. Marrou in Back Matter
- A Patristic Greek Lexicon by G. W. H. Lampe in Back Matter
- The Desert Fathers by Helen Waddell in Back Matter
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- The Letter of Ammon and Pachomian Monasticism (Patristische Texte Und Studien) by James E. Goehring in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Celtic Soul Friend: A Trusted Guide for Today by Edward Cletus Sellner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition by Gavin Flood on page 169, and Back Matter
- The Westminster Handbook to Patristic Theology by John Anthony McGuckin on page 210, and page 248
- The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography by Philip Rousseau on page 148, and Back Matter
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