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The Reception and Use of Monastic Literature

The Reception and Use of Monastic Literature Text Creation and Community Formation - Christianities Before Modernity

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Publisher's Synopsis

This volume explores how Greek and Latin authors across the Mediterranean and Europe deployed related texts to form monastic communities in different veins. Using the Apophthegmata Patrum as an exemplar, Zachary B. Smith argues that late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine authors selectively utilized monastic sayings texts to form their particular monastic worlds.

Book information

ISBN: 9781501517648
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications (Western Michigan University)
Imprint: Medieval Institute Publications
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Edition: New edition
Language: English
Weight: -1g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm