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Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843 1118

Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843 1118

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryReligion General General Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 0521319501
ISBN13: 9780521319508
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 13 2003
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Byzantium monks did not form a separate caste, apart from society. They formed part of a nexus of social, economic and spiritual relationships that bound together the powerful in the middle Byzantine state. Using hagiography, chronicles and, in particular, the newly-available 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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