Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt. by Rousseau, Philip - 1985

Berkeley, California.: University of California Press.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0520050487 . 8vo - 23.5 x 15 cm.; xvi - 217 pp. Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with 2 full page black and white maps, one of which is the frontispiece. Twenty page bibliography and a 5 page general index. From the dust jacket: "Pachomius has long been regarded as the founder of monasticism. This up-country Egyptian peasant, who died in 346 AD, was the first person to organize a community of Christian ascetics. . . . Pachomius possessed a much less rigid personality, both in his approach to institutional experiments and his attitude towards authority, than his later reputation would suggest." The library markings, none of which are external, are a stamp on the title page and attachments on the back free end paper. The book shows very mild wear to the spine tips and the fore corners of the boards and is otherwise clean with a sound binding. The dust jacket is worn on the head edge and the spine and head margins are faded. .