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Monks, Hermits and Ascetics: The Little-Known History of Women in Desert Asceticism
Theodoret of Cyrrhus (423–457) tells us that when little girls played games in forth-century Syria, they played monks and demons. One of the girls, dressed in rags, would reduce her little friends into giggles by exorcising them. This glimpse...
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