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Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium - Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,653
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Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium - Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual (Hardcover): Claudia Rapp

Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium - Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual (Hardcover)

Claudia Rapp

Series: Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture

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Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis that pronounces two men as brothers. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social networking strategy among lay people from the ninth century onwards, even finding application in recent times. Located at the intersection of religious and social history, brother-making exemplifies how social practice can become ritualized and subsequently subjected to attempts of ecclesiastical and legal control. Wide-ranging in its use of sources, from a complete census of the manuscripts containing the ritual of adelphopoiesis to the literature and archaeology of early monasticism, and from the works of hagiographers, historiographers, and legal experts in Byzantium to comparative material in the Latin West and the Slavic world, this book is the first exhaustive treatment of the phenomenon.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
Release date: March 2016
Authors: Claudia Rapp (Director of the Division of Byzantine Research)
Dimensions: 241 x 165 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-538933-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian communities & monasticism
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian communities & monasticism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
Books > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian communities & monasticism
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LSN: 0-19-538933-6
Barcode: 9780195389333

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