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Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Historical Monographs

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLinguisticsGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0198208685
ISBN13: 9780198208686
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Nov 30 2000
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid in their cloisters--or so it is often assumed. Conrad Leyser shows that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority. He describes the making of this tradition over two centuries from St. Augustine to St. Benedict and Gregory the Great.

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