El Ascetismo Radical de los Palliati: ¿Los nuevos cínicos cristianos? Algunos apuntes al tema

Resumen

This work studies, in the Late Antiquity (4th-5th Centuries), the features of a certain kind of free ascetism, with no subjection to any discipline, in a time when monastic trends are imposed averywhere. These ascetic men and women dressed in nigrum pallium were criticed in the same terms by ecclesiastic and pagan writers, and compared to cinic philosophers.