Afterword: The Inner Battle

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents xi
4. I. The Monk in Combat
5. 1. The Single One: The Monk against the Demons 3
6. 2. The New Martyr and Holy Man: Athanasius of Alexandria’s Life of Antony 23
7. 3. The Gnostic: Evagrius Ponticus 48
8. 4. The Vigilant Brother: Pachomius and the Pachomian Koinonia 78
9. 5. The Prophet: Shenoute and the White Monastery 97
10. II. War Stories
11. 6. “The Holy and Great Fathers”: Monks, Demons, and Storytelling 127
12. 7. Ethiopian Demons: The Monastic Self and the Diabolical Other 157
13. 8. Manly Women, Female Demons, and Other Amazing Sights: Gender in Combat 182
14. 9. From Gods to Demons: Making Monks, Making Christians 213
15. Afterword: The Inner Battle 240
16. Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
17. Abbreviations 249
18. Notes 251
19. Selected Bibliography 291
20. Index 295