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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-

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