Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843–1118
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- Author: Rosemary Morris, University of Manchester
- Date Published: November 2003
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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.
Read more- The first study in English of Byzantine monasticism in its social and economic setting
- Aimed at anyone interested in medieval church history, whether western or Byzantine
- The latest in a sequence of successful high-quality monographs on Byzantine history from Cambridge
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"Morris has produced a study that is impressive in its scholarship, and argumentation, and in the flow of its presentation." Steven Fanning, The Historian
See more reviews"Morris has produced a study that is impressive in its scholarship and argumentation and in the flow of its presentation." Steven Fanning, The Historian
"This book is a pioneering work on the life of the monk in the middle Byzantine period." Charles A. Frazee, American Historical Review
"...an impressive range of source materials....should be of vital interest to anyone studying the history of monasticism." Religious Studies Review
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- Date Published: November 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521319508
- length: 356 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.562kg
- contains: 6 maps 6 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of maps and tables
Acknowledgments
Note on transliteration and citation
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Founders and Benefactors:
1. The resurgence of the monastic life
2. Groups, communities and solitaries
3. Monastic founders
4. Monasticism and society
5. Piety, patronage and politics
Part II. Protection and Survival:
6. Monasteries and the law
7. Fortune and misfortune
8. Territorial expansion and spiritual compromise
9. The challenge to central authority
10. The Komnene reaction
Appendix: imperial privileges to monasteries, c. 900-1118
Bibliography
Index.
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