TY - BOOK AU - Dilley, Paul C. TI - Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity : : cognition and discipline / SN - 97890040951061107184010 AV - BX2465 .D55 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - New York, NY : PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Monastic and religious life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.Monastic and religious life -- Early church N1 - Evaluating postulants -- Discerning motivation I: status and vocation -- Discerning motivation II: trials of commitment -- Cognitive disciplines -- Scriptural exercises and the monastic soundscape: writing on the heart -- Learning the fear of God -- Prayer and monastic progress: from demonic temptation to divine revelation -- Collective heart-work -- The lives (and minds) of others: hagiography, cognition, and commemoration -- Shenoute and the heart of darkness: rituals of collective repentance ER -