Holiness and power : Constantinopolitan holy men and authority in the 5th century /

The book examines the origins, development, and the role of the monastic movement in the capital of Byzantium. It was in the 5th century that a certain pattern of the functioning of monastic circles evolved within the specific framework of the ecclesiastical structures of Constantinople, which was a...

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Front matter --
Contents --
List of Abbreviations --
Maps --
Introduction --
The Holy Man in Late Antiquity --
1. Characteristics of the Source --
2. Analysis --
Digression: Messalian Tendencies in the VH and VAl --
1. Secular Authority --
2. Church Authority --
3. Charismatic Authority --
Bibliography --
Index of People --
Index of Places
1. Verfasser:
Kosiński, Rafał
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2016
Berlin, Germany ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.
Zusammenfassung:
The book examines the origins, development, and the role of the monastic movement in the capital of Byzantium. It was in the 5th century that a certain pattern of the functioning of monastic circles evolved within the specific framework of the ecclesiastical structures of Constantinople, which was a political and ecclesiastical centre of the Eastern Roman Empire. The bulk of the book is devoted to an analysis of the written accounts of the lives of the four Constantinopolitan holy men: Hypatios, Alexander Akoimetos, Daniel the Stylite, and Markellos Akoimetos. The analysis proves that the model of relationship between the holy man and the secular authority would change less than the one between the holy man and the ecclesiastical authority. The authors often cast the holy man in the role of "father", who was a kind of patron to the Emperor and his apparatus of government. On the other hand, one can observe a gradual change of the model of the relationship between the holy man and the ecclesiastical authorities from the initial opposition to a fully harmonious partnership. All the "Lives" focus on the idea of the third kind of authority existing alongside the two others; this type of authority is called religious and charismatic.
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1 online resource (284 p.)
Issued also in print.
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English
ISBN:
9783110419221
311041922X
9783110419252
3110419254
ISSN:
1862-1139 ;
Schlagworte:
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian saints > Byzantine Empire > Biography.
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