Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual
Seiten
2016
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538933-3 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538933-3 (ISBN)
The first exhaustive treatment of ritual brotherhood in Byzantium, this book challenges the "Boswell Thesis" and argues that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage, but has its origins in early monasticism.
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.
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.
Claudia Rapp is Director of the Division of Byzantine Research, Institute for Medieval Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences.She was awarded the 2015 Wittgenstein Prize, the most prestigious scientific award in Austria.
Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations, Spelling and Transliteration ; Introduction ; One: Social Structures ; Two: The Ritual of Adelphopoiesis ; Three: The Origins: Small-Group Monasticism in Late Antiquity ; Four: The Social Practice of Brother-Making in Byzantium ; Five: Prescriptions and Restrictions in Byzantium ; Six: Beyond Byzantium ; Appendix 1: List of Manuscripts ; Appendix 2: Table of Prayers ; Appendix 3: Prayers in Translation ; Bibliography: Sources ; Bibliography: Scholarly Literature
Reihe/Serie | Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture |
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Zusatzinfo | 11 figures, 2 maps |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 165 x 241 mm |
Gewicht | 660 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-538933-6 / 0195389336 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-538933-3 / 9780195389333 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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