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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
R2,602 Discovery Miles 26 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity - The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition (Paperback): Claudia Rapp Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity - The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition (Paperback)
Claudia Rapp
R1,133 Discovery Miles 11 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishopOCoas the highest Church official in his cityOCofrom model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the development of the Church as an institution, and to bring to the fore the continued importance of the religious underpinnings of the bishop's role as civic leader. Rapp rejects Max WeberOCOs categories of charismatic versus institutional authority that have traditionally been used to distinguish the nature of episcopal authority from that of the ascetic and holy man. Instead she proposes a model of spiritual authority, ascetic authority and pragmatic authority, in which a bishopOCOs visible asceticism is taken as evidence of his spiritual powers and at the same time provides the justification for his public role. In clear and graceful prose, Rapp provides a wholly fresh analysis of the changing dynamics of social mobility as played out in episcopal appointments."

Ghostbound 2 - US-Edition - Call from the Other Side (Paperback): Claudia Rapp Ghostbound 2 - US-Edition - Call from the Other Side (Paperback)
Claudia Rapp; Edited by Diane Ashfield; Illustrated by Classira Yeo
R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Who can you trust? Finally, Elizabeth and her friends have a hot lead. It appears that a secret brotherhood is responsible for the murders, and its roots hark back to a long-forgotten Indian cult. But it seems they are after Elizabeth now as well, because this invisible society is powerful and will do anything to keep their secret hidden. As if this isn't enough trouble, Daniel is being called to the other side at every sunrise, and the ghost can only stay in this world if Elizabeth is there to anchor him to it. But then Elizabeth is kidnapped, and relentlessly the new day dawns... *Book 2 of the GHOSTBOUND-Series*

Ghostbound 3 - US-Edition - Dark Destiny (Paperback): Claudia Rapp Ghostbound 3 - US-Edition - Dark Destiny (Paperback)
Claudia Rapp; Edited by Diane Ashfield; Illustrated by Clarissa Yeo
R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What do you believe in? And what are you willing to sacrifice for it? Finally, the true motives of the brotherhood are revealed, and now its clear that far more is at stake than Elizabeth and her friends realised: its Daniels soul the brotherhood is after All by herself, Elizabeth has to make a decision, and its not just her own fate that hangs in the balance. But can she win the race against time without the help of her friends? *Book 3 of the GHOSTBOUND-Series*

Mapping Contemporary Literature from Hawai'i (Paperback): Claudia Rapp Mapping Contemporary Literature from Hawai'i (Paperback)
Claudia Rapp
R2,009 Discovery Miles 20 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook (Hardcover): Claudia Rapp, Matthew Kinloch Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Claudia Rapp, Matthew Kinloch
R1,875 Discovery Miles 18 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World - Changing Contexts of Power and Identity (Hardcover): Claudia Rapp, H.A.... The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World - Changing Contexts of Power and Identity (Hardcover)
Claudia Rapp, H.A. Drake
R2,959 Discovery Miles 29 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume examines the evolving role of the city and citizenship from classical Athens through fifth-century Rome and medieval Byzantium. Beginning in the first century CE, the universal claims of Hellenistic and Roman imperialism began to be challenged by the growing role of Christianity in shaping the primary allegiances and identities of citizens. An international team of scholars considers the extent of urban transformation, and with it, of cultural and civic identity, as practices and institutions associated with the city-state came to be replaced by those of the Christian community. The twelve essays gathered here develop an innovative research agenda by asking new questions: What was the effect on political ideology and civic identity of the transition from the city culture of the ancient world to the ruralized systems of the middle ages? How did perceptions of empire and oikoumene respond to changed political circumstances? How did Christianity redefine the context of citizenship?

Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity - The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition (Hardcover): Claudia Rapp Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity - The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition (Hardcover)
Claudia Rapp
R2,527 Discovery Miles 25 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop - as the highest Church official in his city - from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the development of the Church as an institution, and to bring to the fore the continued importance of the religious underpinnings of the bishop's role as civic leader. Rapp rejects Max Weber's categories of 'charismatic' versus 'institutional' authority that have traditionally been used to distinguish the nature of episcopal authority from that of the ascetic and holy man. Instead she proposes a model of spiritual authority, ascetic authority and pragmatic authority, in which a bishop's visible asceticism is taken as evidence of his spiritual powers and at the same time provides the justification for his public role. In clear and graceful prose, Rapp provides a wholly fresh analysis of the changing dynamics of social mobility as played out in episcopal appointments.

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