STUDIA PATRISTICA
VOL. XXXIX
Papers presented atthe Fourteenth International Conference
‘on Patristic Studies held
in Oxford 2003
Historica
Biblica
Ascetica et Hagiographica
ited by
F. YOUNG, M. EDWARDS and P, PARVIS
PETERS
LEUVEN - PARIS - DUDLEY, MA
2006‘The Master-Disciple Relationship in Cassian’s Conferences:
A Training for Monastic Perfectio"
Roberto ALcur, Turin
In this communication I wish to highlight some questions discussed at
grater length in my dissertation, The work draws its origins from an ltalian
research project launched in 1998 by historians and scholars of religious sei
fence to address the historical problem of spiritual direction”. I prefer the def-
inition master-