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thebaid
Monasticism at its most simple and essential level. At the time of the Thebaid, the Levant was sprinkled generously with ascetic extremists, the types who immured themselves in caves, those that wore theit time away in prayer and meditation and … Continue reading
desert getaway
The Thebaid, a fourteenth-century painting attributed to Gherardo Starnina depicts the Egyptian desert around Thebes as teeming with anchorites. The body of Saint Paul, the first Christian hermit and a contemporary of Saint Anthony , is shown in repose at … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aristotle, Edward Gibbon, gherardo starnina, Hieronymous Bosch, martin schongauer, Saint Anthony, saint anthony hermit, Samuel Beckett, Socrates, the anchorites, the stylites, Theodore Roszak, Tom Lubbock
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