Diss.--Berkeley--University of California. / Contient : "Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Wandering in the Desert and the Virtues of Manual Labor -- Xeniteia in the Desert -- Stories of the Wandering Pioneers -- Settling the Desert -- Wandering in Dejection and the Solace of Manual Labor -- Wandering and Sustenance in the Desert -- Wandering and Communal Stability in the Desert -- Apostolic Wanderers of Third-Century Syria -- An Apostolic Paradigm for Ascetic Wanderers: The Acts of Thomas -- A Manual for Apostolic Wanderers: Pseudo-Clement's Letters to Virgins -- The Continuing Influence of the Apostolic Paradigm -- In Support of "People Who Pray": Apostolic Monasticism and the Messalian Controversy -- The Evolution of the Messalian Profile -- Toward a Broader Definition of the Messalian Controversy -- Conflicting Assumptions of Orthodox Monastic Practice in the East -- Conflicting Assumptions of Orthodox Monastic Practice in the West -- Apostle and Heretic: The Controversial Career of Alexander the Sleepless -- Alexander the Apostolic Man -- Alexander the Heretic -- Spiritual Authority and the Messalian Controversy -- Hypocrites and Pseudomonks: Beggars, Bishops, and Ascetic Teachers in Cities of the Early Fifth Century -- Beggars at the Gates -- John Chrysostom and the Christmongers of Constantinople -- Nilus and the Ascetic Parasites of Ancyra -- John Chrysostom and the Monks of Constantinople -- Monastic Patronage and Social Mobility -- Monastic Patronage and the Two Churches of Constantinople -- Dalmatius and Ascetic Enthusiasts in the Downfall of Nestorius -- Eutyches and the Circumcellions of Constantinople -- Toward a New Era in Church and Monastic Relations -- Epilogue -- App The Life of Alexander Akoimetos -- Select Bibliography -- Index" Bibliogr. p. 281-309. Index.