Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid in their cloisters--or so it is often assumed. Conrad Leyser shows that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority. He describes the making of this tradition over two centuries from St. Augustine to St. Benedict and Gregory the Great.


Author: Conrad Leyser
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 11/30/2000
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780198208686

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