Voobus Arthur. History of asceticism in the Syrian Orient I

CSCO Subsidia. — Louvain, 1958. — 342 p.Arthur Voobus, the pioneering scholar of much Eastern monasticism, wrote that ‘ideas have legs’.This book has demonstrated how ideas about abstention from food, drink, sleep, and wealth, could travel between religions as well as between far distant places in the Ancient world.