Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian

In his Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian , first published in 1978, Philip Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a selective study of Jerome, and then, moving into the fifth century, a reading of Sulpicius and Cassian. Rousseau explores such societal changes as the eventual triumph of the coenobitic movement and its growing effect within the church, not least on the episcopate. He focuses primarily on the deve