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“I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites
- Author(s):
- Andrew Jacobs (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Ancient Jew Review, Late Antiquity
- Subject(s):
- Civilization, Classical, History, Ancient, Asceticism, Syriac literature, Celebrities--Study and teaching, Church history--Primitive and early church
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Late Antiquity, Celebrity studies, Early Christianity
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/xdca-je12
- Abstract:
- An exploration of the paradoxical celebrity of ascetic renunciants in early Christianity, using the example of Simeon Stylites, the pillar saint.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- 10.2307/j.ctvq4bzgf.11
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- Pub. Date:
- 2019-10-2
- Book Title:
- The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity
- Author/Editor:
- Georgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, and Andrew S. Jacobs
- Page Range:
- 145 - 168
- ISBN:
- 9780823287048
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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“I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites