Book: John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity
Chapter: Cassian's Context and Asceticism as Basis for Valid Authority
Blurb:
This begins with Cassian’s Egyptian context, where he learned how to be a monk from the men he considered masters of the monastic vocation. It then examines fifth-century Gaul, the context in which Cassian wrote both the Institutes and the Conferences. Finally, it demonstrates Cassian’s notion of asceticism as mark of authority.