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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press’s
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1990.
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