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Holiness and power : Constantinopolitan holy men and authority in the 5th century /
The book examines the origins, development, and the role of the monastic movement in the capital of Byzantium. It was in the 5th century that a certain pattern of the functioning of monastic circles evolved within the specific framework of the ecclesiastical structures of Constantinople, which was a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Millennium-Studien ;
Bd. 57. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; The Holy Man in Late Antiquity ; 1. Peter Brown's Thesis and Its Development ; 2. Hagiography
- Primary Sources for the Research on the Holy Man.
- 3. Constantinople: an Outline of the Specific Characteristics of Early Constantinopolitan Monasticism Part I: Life of Hypatios ; 1. Characteristics of the Source ; 1.1. The Author ; 1.2. The Purpose of the Work and Dates ; 1.3. Originality and Borrowings ; 1.4. Structure.
- 1.5. Hypatios
- Narratio Hagiographica 2. Analysis ; 2.1. Hypatios' Relations with Secular Authority ; 2.1.1. Relations with the Emperors and Members of the Imperial Family ; 2.1.2. Relations with Officials and the Aristocracy ; 2.1.2.1. Controversial Situations.
- 2.1.2.2. Borderline Cases 2.1.2.3. Positive Relations ; 2.1.2.4. Jonas of Halmyrissos' Relations with the Power Elite of Constantinople; Rouphinos ; 2.2. Relations Between Hypatios and Church Authority ; 2.2.1. Deaconess ; 2.2.2. Priests ; 2.2.3. Hypatios as a Priest ; 2.2.4. Bishops.
- Part II: Life of Alexander Akoimetos 1. Characteristics of the Source ; 1.1. Dates ; 1.2. The Author ; 1.3. Structure ; 1.4. Biographical Data in the Narratio Hagiographica ; 1.5. Alexander's Trial and Expulsion from Constantinople ; 2. Analysis.