Varieties of Monastic Experience in Byzantium, 800-1453

by Alice-Mary Talbot

Book Overview

In this unprecedented introduction to Byzantine monasticism, based on the Conway Lectures she delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, Alice-Mary Talbot surveys the various forms of monastic life in the Byzantine Empire between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. It includes chapters on male monastic communities (mostly cenobitic, but some idiorrhythmic in late Byzantium), nuns and nunneries, hermits and holy mountains, and a final chapter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268105626
• ISBN13: 9780268105624
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"