Literature:
Abramovych, Dmytro. Kyievo-Pechers’kyi paterik. Kyiv: 1931; reprinted Kyiv: Chas, 1991.
Athanasius of Alexandria. Vivian, Tim and Athanassakis, Apostolos N. (trans.), The Life of Antony. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2003.
Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Caner, Daniel. Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Clark, Elizabeth A. Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Doran, Robert. (transl., and introd.) The Lives of Simeon Stylites. US: Cistercian Publications, 1992.
Goehring, James E. Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1999.
The HarperCollins Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993.
Heppell, Muriel (trans.). The Paterik of the Kievan Caves Monastery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1989.
Krueger, Derek. Symeon the Holy Fool: Liontius’s Life and the Late Antique City. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 1996.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. Gregory Hays (trans.) New York: the Modern Library, 2002.
Martin, Luther H, Gutman, Huck, Hutton, Patrick H. (eds.) Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
Meyendorff, John. Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes. New York: Fordham University Press, 1983.
Meyer, Robert T. (trans.). Palladius: The Lausiac History. New York: Paulist Press, 1964.
Poliakova, Sofia (transl.). Zhitiia Vizantiiskikh Sviatykh. St. Petersburg: Corvus, Terra Fantastica, PoccKo, 1995.
Stacey, W. D. Prophetic Drama in the Old Testament. London: Epworth Press, 1990.
Vaage, Leif and Wimbush, L. Vincent (eds.). Asceticism and the New Testament. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Web Resources:
The New and Old Testaments texts:
http://www.bible.org/netbible/index.htm
http://www.hram.kiev.ua/index.php?mode=books&cat=21
searchable Bible:
http://bible.crosswalk.com/
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html
excerpts:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/aurelius.html
about Marcus Aurelius
http://www.iep.utm.edu/m/marcus.htm
The Cynics
http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/cynics.htm
Diogenes of Sinope
http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dldiogenes.htm
Christian Desert Tradition:
http://www.balamandmonastery.org.lb/fathers/indexdesert.htm
The Life of Antony by Athanasius of Alexandria
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vita-antony.html and
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-04/Npnf2-04-38.htm#P3636_1501897
St. Simeon the Stylite
http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/source/evagrius-simeon.html
short version: http://www.saintbarbara.org/about/icons/symeon.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13795a.htm
Serapion the Sindonite and Isidora the Fool (The Nun who feigned madness), in Palladius, The Lausiac History
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/palladius_lausiac_02_text.htm
Life and Rule of St. Pachomius http://www.scourmont.be/studium/bresard/05-pachomius.html
St. Pachomius—texts http://www.voskrese.info/spl/Xpachomy-gt.html
Michel Foucault, Technologies of the Self http://www.thefoucauldian.co.uk/tself.htm
Kiev-Cave Paterikon (Ukrainian)
http://www.hram.kiev.ua/index.php?mode=books&cat=6&parent=660
Additional Resources:
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/
Religious Facts http://www.religionfacts.com/index.html
St. Pachomius Library http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html
Medieval Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1c.html#Monasticism
Catholic Encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org/
Jewish Encyclopedia http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
Diogenes Laertius Lives http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/index.htm
Medieval Sourcebook: Byzantium http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1c.html#Sanctity
Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism
The Columbia Encyclopedia http://www.bartleby.com/65/as/ascetici.html
Krotov's Library http://www.krotov.info/index.htm
