Swimming against the Tide: How the Monks of Medikion Challenged Traditional Notions of Sainthood
Byzantine monasticism is known to us chiefly through two types of texts, the lives of saints, and spiritual treatises. The two genres give us quite different impressions of what it meant to be a perfect monk. The spiritual tradition focused on the inner life, advising the practitioners to purify the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Scrinium
Year: 2020, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 375-389 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KCA Monasticism; religious orders KCD Hagiography; saints KDF Orthodox Church NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit |
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B Vision of God B Medikion B Healing B Clairvoyance B Nicetas B holy man B Nicephorus |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |