... the Stylite temple church architecture landscape monasticism asceticism mountain In the early fifth century on a hill adjacent to the village of Telanissos in northern Syria, an ascetic named Symeon ascended a column to pray and seek solitude. 1 His first column was low, somewhere between three...

... much attention, both because of its surprisingly positive perspective on Christianity, and for the evidence it provides of Christian asceticism in a very early period. 45 Despite this attention, little attempt has been made to contextualize the passage with Galen's other comments on a life...

... of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Asceticism Governance Identity Christianization...