Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118

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.

Author: Rosemary Morris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/19/1995
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.20w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780521265584

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