The Making of Monastic Demonology
Three Ascetic Teachers on Withdrawal and Resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3433129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Brakke (Indiana University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-48 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3654409 |
| OpenAlex | W2109233330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 25 |
Although in recent years fourth- and fifth-century Egyptian monasticism has received much scholarly attention of increasing methodological and theoretical sophistication, conflict with demons, a primary metaphor for the ascetic life in the literature of the period, has been left relatively unexplored. One reason for this lack of attention is a shift in the intellectual paradigms through which scholars approach ascetic literature: as they have moved from psychological and theological models to social and performative ones in interpreting ascetic theory and practice, seemingly subjective or theological themes such as demonological theory have given way to more cultural topics, such as constructions of the body and formations of ascetic institutions and practices, with their accompanying politics. But the neglect of demons is a function also of the weighty influence exercised by two fourth-century demonologists, Athanasius of Alexandria and Evagrius of Pontus, and of the powerful modern explications of monastic demonology based on these important sources. Together theLife of Antonyand the works of Evagrius construct, it seems,themonastic demonology, upon which later sources only elaborate
Aesthetics · Art · Asceticism · Demonology · Exorcism · Literature · Metaphor · Monasticism · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Renunciation · Sociology · Theology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
Ordering Intellectual Life
Asceticism
Real and Imagined Geography
The Steppe World and the Rise of the Huns
The Reinvention of Iran
Military Developments in the Fifth Century
Urban and Rural Economies in the Age of Attila
Selected Ancient Sources
Migrations, Ethnic Groups, and State Building
Dynasty and Aristocracy in the Fifth Century
Government and Mechanisms of Control, East and West
Ascetics and Monastics in the Early Fifth Century
Marked Bodies
Into the Desert
Techniques of Finitude
Valerius of Bierzo as an interpreter of the seventh-century ecclesiastical environment of northwestern Iberia
Refuge in the Bosoms of the Mountains
A Marked Absence
Institutional Dreams
The Egyptian Hermes
‘Virgins of God’
Canon Formation and Social Conflict in Fourth-Century Egypt
Ein doppelt überliefertes Stück spätägyptischer Weisheit
The Egyptian hermes. A historical approach to the late pagan mind
Religion and Culture
The Desert Fathers on Monastic Community
Paul of Tamma and the Monastic Priesthood
Les Démons Comme Brigands
Ascetics, Society, and the Desert
Pachomius
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |