Monks & Laymen Byzantium 843-1118 - Softcover

Morris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521319501 ISBN 13: 9780521319508

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Using hagiography, chronicles and, in particular, the archives of the Athonite monasteries, this book reassesses the role of monks in Byzantine society and examines the reasons for the flowering of the monastic life in the period from the end of iconoclasm to the beginning of the twelfth century.

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Críticas:

'... excellent ... there is no comparable book in English about Byzantine monastic life and its importance in the imperial, social and economic fabric of society.' Donald Nicol, Anglo-Hellenic Review

Reseña del editor:

In Byzantium monks did not form a separate caste, apart from society. They were not only loyal to their own houses or monastic leaders, but also formed part of a nexus of social, economic and spiritual relationships which bound together the 'powerful' in the middle Byzantine state. Their monasticism, unlike the Western religious 'orders', displayed a highly individualistic streak. Using hagiography, chronicles and, in particular, the archives of the Athonite monasteries, this book reassesses the role of monks in Byzantine society and examines the reasons for the flowering of the monastic life in the period from the end of iconoclasm to the beginning of the twelfth century. The first study of its kind in English, it is aimed at anyone interested in either the Western or the Byzantine early medieval religious life.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521319501
• ISBN 13: 9780521319508
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352