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In Byzantium monks did not form a separate caste, apart from society. They held loyalties not only to their own houses or monastic leaders, but also formed part of a nexus of social, economic and spiritual relationships which bound together the 'powerful' in the middle Byzantine state. Monasticism displayed a highly individualistic streak, unlike the Western religious 'orders'.
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. It is the first study of its kind in English, and is aimed at anyone interested in either the Western or the Byzantine early medieval religious life.
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Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118
2011, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511869398 9780511869396
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Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118
2009, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511523076 9780511523076
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Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 8431118
November 13, 2003, Cambridge University Press
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in English
- New Ed edition
0521319501 9780521319508
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Monks and laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118
2002, Cambridge University Press
in English
- 1st pbk. ed
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Monks and laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118
1995, Cambridge University Press
in English
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"THE ENTHRONEMENT OF THE NEW patriarch Methodios of Constantinople on 11 March 843 marked the beginning of a new era in the Byzantine church."
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