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Wandering, Begging Monks THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE Peter Brown, General Editor I ArtandCeremonyinLateAntiquity,by Sabine G. MacCormack II SynesiusofCyrene:Philosopher-Bishop,by Jay Alan Bregman III TheodosianEmpresses:WomenandImperialDominioninLateAntiquity,by Kenneth G. Holum IV JohnChrysostomandtheJews:RhetoricandRealityintheLateFourthCentury, by RobertL. Wilken V BiographyinLateAntiquity:TheQuestfortheHolyMan, by PatriciaCox VI Pachomius:TheMakingofaCommunityinFourth-CenturyEgypt, by Philip Rousseau VII ChangeinByzantineCultureintheEleventhandTwelfthCenturies,by A. P. Kazhdanand Ann Wharton Epstein VIII LeadershipandCommunityinLateAntiqueGaul, by RaymondVan Dam IX HomertheTheologian:NeoplatonistAllegoricalReadingandtheGrowthofthe EpicTradition,by RobertLamberton X ProcopiusandtheSixthCentury,by Averil Cameron XI GuardiansofLanguage:TheGrammarianandSocietyinLateAntiquity,by RobertA. Kaster XII CivicCoinsandCivicPoliticsintheRomanEast,A.D.180–275, by Kenneth Harl XIII HolyWomenoftheSyrianOrient, introducedand translatedby SebastianP. Brock and Susan AshbrookHarvey XIV GregorytheGreat:PerfectioninImperfection,by Carole Straw XV “ApexOmnium”:Religioninthe“Resgestae”ofAmmianus,by R. L. Rike XVI DioscorusofAphrodito:HisWorkandHisWorld, by Leslie S. B. MacCoull XVII OnRomanTime:TheCodex-Calendarof354andtheRhythmsofUrbanLife inLateAntiquity,by Michele Renee Salzman XVIIIAsceticismandSocietyinCrisis:JohnofEphesusandTheLivesofthe EasternSaints,by Susan AshbrookHarvey XIX BarbariansandPoliticsattheCourtofArcadius,by Alan Cameron and JacquelineLong,with a contributionby Lee Sherry XX BasilofCaesarea, by Philip Rousseau XXI InPraiseofLaterRomanEmperors:The“PanegyriciLatini,”introduction, translation,and historicalcommentaryby C. E. V. Nixonand Barbara SaylorRodgers XXII AmbroseofMilan:ChurchandCourtinaChristianCapital, by Neil B. McLynn XXIIIPublicDisputation,Power,andSocialOrderinLateAntiquity, by RichardLim XXIV TheMakingofaHeretic:Gender,Authority,andthePriscillianist Controversy,by Virginia Burrus XXV SymeontheHolyFool:Leontius’sLifeandtheLateAntiqueCity, by Derek Krueger XXVI TheShadowsofPoetry:VergilintheMindofAugustine, by Sabine MacCormack XXVII PaulinusofNola:Life,Letters,andPoems,by Dennis E. Trout XXVIIITheBarbarianPlain:SaintSergiusbetweenRomeandIran, by ElizabethKey Fowden XXIX ThePrivateOrationsofThemistius,translated,annotated,and introducedby RobertJ. Penella XXX TheMemoryoftheEyes:PilgrimstoLivingSaintsinChristianLate Antiquity,by GeorgiaFrank XXXI GreekBiographyandPanegyricinLateAntiquity,edited by TomasHa¨gg and Philip Rousseau XXXII SubtleBodies:RepresentingAngelsinByzantium,by Glenn Peers XXXIIIWandering,BeggingMonks:SpiritualAuthorityandthePromotionof MonasticisminLateAntiquity,by Daniel Caner XXXIV ValensandtheFourth-CenturyEmpire,by Noel Lenski Wandering, Begging Monks Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity Daniel Caner UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley LosAngeles London UniversityofCaliforniaPress BerkeleyandLosAngeles,California UniversityofCaliforniaPress,Ltd. London,England (cid:1)2002bytheRegentsoftheUniversityofCalifornia LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Caner,Daniel. Wandering,beggingmonks:spiritualauthorityandthe promotionofmonasticisminlateantiquity/DanielCaner. p.cm.—(Thetransformationoftheclassicalheritage;33) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0–520-23324-7(alk.paper) 1.Monasticandreligiouslife—History—Earlychurch,ca.30– 600.2.Messalians. I.Title. II.Series. BR195.M65C36 2002 271'.009'015—dc21 2002016559 ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Thepaperusedinthispublicationisbothacid-freeandtotally chlorine-free(TCF).ItmeetstheminimumrequirementsofANSI/ NISOZ39.48–1992(R1997)(PermanenceofPaper). For Ann contents acknowledgments / xi abbreviations / xiii Introduction / 1 TheModelHolyMan / 4 NormativeTraditionandHistoricalRealities / 12 1. Wandering in the Desert and the Virtues of Manual Labor / 19 Xeniteia intheDesert / 24 StoriesoftheWanderingPioneers / 30 SettlingtheDesert / 35 WanderinginDejectionandtheSolaceofManualLabor / 38 WanderingandSustenanceintheDesert / 41 WanderingandCommunalStabilityintheDesert / 47 2. Apostolic Wanderers of Third-Century Syria / 50 AnApostolicParadigmforAsceticWanderers:The Actsof Thomas / 57 AManualforApostolicWanderers:Pseudo-Clement’sLettersto Virgins / 65 TheContinuingInfluenceoftheApostolicParadigm / 77 3. In Support of “People Who Pray”: Apostolic Monasticism and the Messalian Controversy / 83 TheEvolutionoftheMessalianProfile / 86 TowardaBroaderDefinitionoftheMessalianControversy / 96 ConflictingAssumptionsofOrthodoxMonasticPracticeintheEast / 104 ConflictingAssumptionsofOrthodoxMonasticPracticeintheWest / 117 4. Apostle and Heretic: The Controversial Career of Alexander the Sleepless / 126 AlexandertheApostolicMan / 130
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