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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.
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    Published as:
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    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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