Monks and laymen in Byzantium, 843–1118

Cambridge University Press

1995

XXII, 330 S.

9780521265584

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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