Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118

Name: Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118
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ISBN: 9780521265584

ISBN-10: 0521265584

ISBN-13: 9780521265584

Edition: 1995

Authors: Rosemary Morris

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Description:

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 12th century.

Book details

List price: $111.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/19/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 356
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



List of maps and tables


Acknowledgments


Note on transliteration and citation


List of abbreviations


Introduction



Founders and Benefactors



The resurgence of the monastic life



Groups, communities and solitaries



Monastic founders



Monasticism and society



Piety, patronage and politics



Protection and Survival



Monasteries and the law



Fortune and misfortune



Territorial expansion and spiritual compromise



The challenge to central authority



The Komnene reaction


Appendix: imperial privileges to monasteries, c. 900-1118


Bibliography


Index