Ascetic Culture: Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau

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I n d e x 393 Academic philosophers, 191 Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 296, 297, 299, 300 Acholius (bishop of Thessalonica), 188, 189 Acta Archelai, 60 Ad Melaniam (Evagrius of Pontus), 246 Adam and Eve animals and animality, 253–56, 254, 257, 265 John Chrysostom on, 271, 287n52, 288n60 Adams, Ansel, 220 Aelian, 259–60 Age of Homespun, The (Ulrich, 2001), 201 agricultural wealth, classical bias in favor of, 270 Aland, Kurt, 299 alphabet symbolism. See letter symbolism in Pachomius’s epistles Ambrose of Milan, 171, 189, 192, 196n23, 255, 257 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 319 American Committee for the Authorized Revision of the Bible, 318 American Historical Association, 319 American Protestant professors. See Protestant America and early Christian historiography American Society of Church History, 318, 319 American Theological Review, 317 Amida, cenobium at, 134–35 Ammonas (disciple of Antony), 58 Ammonius of Alexandria, 117n3 Apa Amoun, 53–54, 66n20 Anastasia (church and community of Gregory of Nazianzus in Constantinople), 186, 188, 193, 196n15 animality and asceticism, 6, 253–65 Adam and the animals, 253–56, 254, 257, 265 ancient animal psychology, 260–61 anthropological mapping of animality, 257–58 in Basil’s Hexaemeron, 6, 255, 257, 261–64, 268n51 Carrand diptych, 253–55, 254, 257, 265, 265n7 Historia monachorum in Aegypto story of Theon, 265 Physiologus story about elephants, 259–60, 261, 263, 264 shame, pedagogical use of, 263–64 stories about animals, significance of, 258 zoological mapping of human body and soul, 256–57 Antirhêtikos (“Talking Back;” Evagrius of Pontus), 98, 120n35, 236 Antony the Great. See also Life of Antony Apophthegm of Antony, 52 direct influence of writings attributed to, 63 early images of, 65n10 Encomium on Antony (John of Schmun), 53, 60 Letters of, 4, 58, 63, 70n59, 78, 90, 219, 224n37 monastery of, 51 symbols used in writings of, 15 ants, 267n44, 275, 288n58 Apa Apollo, monastery of, at Bala’izah, 61 Apa Elias of the Rock, monastery of, Thebes, 61–62 Apa Thomas, monastery of, at Wadi Sarga, 61 Aphthonius of Antioch, 109 apokatastasis, 5, 140, 149 Apollinarius, 87 Apollonius of Tyana, 94n31 apologetic, Life of Antony as, 79, 91 Apophthegm of Antony, 52, 68n44 Apophthegmata patrum, 52, 61, 89, 91, 154, 214 apotaktikos, 68n45 Arians and Arianism cunctos populos edict and, 186, 192, 194, 196n15 exile of Athanasius and, 205 Historia arianorum (Athanasius), 77–78 Life of Antony and, 63, 75, 76, 77–78, 79, 82, 214 Arignotus the Pythagorean, 81 Aristeas, 238 Aristophanes, 290n87 Aristotle, 96n71, 106, 109, 121n47–48, 168, 260–61, 288n59, 334n22 ascetic culture in early Christianity, 4–8 books and reading programs, 4–5 (see also context and purpose of Life of Antony; influence of Life of Antony in Egypt; letter symbolism in Pachomius’s epistles; Psalter in Athanasius’s Letter to Marcellinus; scripture in Pachomian and White Monastery rules) concept of, 7–8 disciplinary culture, 5–6 (see also distributed cognition in Cassian’s Institutes; Life of Macrina; Maximus the Philosopher and Gregory Nazianzus; penitential spectacles) landscapes and ascetic selffashioning , 6–7 (see also animality and asceticism; myth of the desert; nature imagery in John Chrysostom; xeniteia in Evagrius of Pontus) 394 Index nineteenth-century scholarship on, 7 (see also Harnack, Adolf von, and study of early Christianity; Protestant America and early Christian historiography) Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian (Rousseau, 1978), 2, 148, 182–83, 315 Asterius the Homilist, 103 astrology and letter symbolism, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27n31 atbash pairings, 13, 20 Athanasius of Alexandria. See also Life of Antony; Psalter in Athanasius’s Letter to Marcellinus circulation of works of, 61, 63 Constantine of Assiut’s encomia on, 60 Contra gentes, 81 encomia on, 74n91 exile of, 205–6, 222n21 Festal Letters, 54, 59, 67n31, 77, 93n13, 104, 206, 222n23, 223n24 Historia arianorum, 77–78, 93n15 Life of Athanasius, 52–53, 66n21 Maximus the Philosopher compared to, 191, 192 “On the Moral Life,” 59 Oration 21 (Gregory of Nazianzus) on, 187, 191 Pachomian monks and, 51, 53–57, 76–77 prescriptions on behavior of virgins, 4, 63 promulgation of agenda of, 62–63 rhetorical education of, 108–9 second letter to the monks, 61 urban ascetics and, 206–8 White Monastery monks and, 57–60 Athenaeus, 290n87 Auctores Antiquissimi, 295 Augustine of Hippo on animals, 261, 266n8 Confessions, 8, 107, 119n21 on imagistic memory, 107 mother Monica, 171 on penitential spectacles...