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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Scrinium
Year: 2017, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 84-113 |
IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KCA Monasticism; religious orders KCD Hagiography; saints |
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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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