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Asceticism and Society in Crisis - John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints (Hardcover)
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Asceticism and Society in Crisis - John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints (Hardcover)
Series: The Transformation of the Classical Heritage S.
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John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine
world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In
his major work, "The Lives of the Eastern Saints," he recorded 58
portraits of monks and nuns he had known, using the literary
conventions of hagiography in a strikingly personal way. War,
bubonic plague, famine, collective hysteria, and religious
persecution were a part of daily life and the background against
which asceticism developed an acute meaning for a beleaguered
populace. Taking the work of John of Ephesus as her guide, Harvey
explores the relationship between asceticism and society in the
sixth-century Byzantine East.
Concerned above all with the responsibility of the ascetic to lay
society, John's writing narrates his experiences in the villages of
the Syrian Orient, the deserts of Egypt, and the imperial city of
Constantinople. Harvey's work contributes to a new understanding of
the social world of the late antique Byzantine East, skillfully
examining the character of ascetic practices, the traumatic
separation of "Monophysite" churches, the fluctuating roles of
women in Syriac Christianity, and the general contribution of
hagiography to the study of history.
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