Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118 by Rosemary Morris

Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118

Rosemary Morris

356 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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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, ...

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