Young honors Philip Rousseau�s pathbreaking work on early Christian asceticism in a series of essays exploring how quickly the industrious and imaginative practitioners of asceticism, from the early fourth through the mid-fifth century, adapted the Greco-Roman social, literary, and religious culture in which they had been raised. Far from rejecting the life of the urban centers of the ancient world, they refined and elaborated that life in their libraries, households, and communities.
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These essays seek to extend and honor the work of renowned scholar and pillar of the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages at The Catholic University of America, Sidney H. Griffith.
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