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