Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Mateusz Fafinski, Jakob Riemenschneider (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-98448-5 (ISBN)

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This Element will reevaluate the relationship between monasticism and the city in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the period 400 to 700 in both post-Roman West and the eastern Mediterranean, putting both of those areas in conversation. Building on recent scholarship on the nature of late antique urbanism, the authors can observe that the links between late antique Christian thought and the late and post-Roman urban space were far more relevant to the everyday practice of monasticism than previously thought. By comparing Latin, Greek and Syriac sources from a broad geographical area, the authors gain a birds' eye view on the enduring importance of urbanism in a late and post-Roman monastic world.

Introduction; 1. Monasticism as a genre of society; 2. The Monastery as a City; 3. Monks and Nuns in the City; 4. Monastic Learning; 5. Monasticism as an Afroeurasian Phenomenon; Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	152 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-108-98448-7 / 1108984487
ISBN-13	978-1-108-98448-5 / 9781108984485
Zustand	Neuware