Slavery and Asceticism in John of Ephesus’ Lives of the Eastern Saints


This article examines the phenomenon of slavery – both institutional (being enslaved to other human beings) and divine (being enslaved to God) – and its relationship to asceticism in John of Ephesus’ (507-589 CE) Lives of the Eastern Saints. The study first examines the nature of institutional slave...

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Главный автор: de Wet, Chris (Автор)
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Опубликовано: Brill 2017
В: Scrinium
Год: 2017, Том: 13, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 84-113
Индексация IxTheo:CB Христианская жизнь
CH Христианство и общество
KAD Раннее средневековье
KCA Монашество; религиозные ордена
KCD Агиография
Другие ключевые слова:B asceticism
 Liber graduum
 Byzantine slavery
 hagiography
 John of Ephesus
 late antiquity
 Lives of the Eastern Saints
 monasticism
 slave of God
 slavery
 Syriac

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