Varieties of Monastic Experience in Byzantium, 800-1453
In this unprecedented introduction to Byzantine monasticism, based on the Conway Lectures she delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, Alice-Mary Talbot surveys the various forms of monastic life in the Byzantine Empire between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. It includes chapters on male monastic communities (mostly cenobitic, but some idiorrhythmic in late Byzantium), nuns and nunneries, hermits and holy mountains, and a final chapter on alternative forms of monasticism, including recluses, stylites, wandering monks, holy fools, nuns disguised as monks, and unaffiliated monks and nuns.This original monograph does not attempt to…
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- ISBN: 978-0-268-10563-1
- EAN: 9780268105631
- Produktnummer: 31298237
- Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'765 KB
Über den Autor
Alice-Mary Talbot is the editor of the Byzantine Greek series of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library and director emeritas of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including service as the executive editor of the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium.
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