RT Book
T1 Holiness and power: Constantinopolitan holy men and authority in the 5th century
T2 Millennium-Studien
JF Millennium-Studien
A1 Kosiński, Rafał 1975-
LA English
PP Berlin Boston
PB De Gruyter
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1659048125
AB The book examines the origins, development, and the role of the monastic movement in the capital of Byzantium. It was in the 5th century that a certain pattern of the functioning of monastic circles evolved within the specific framework of the ecclesiastical structures of Constantinople, which was a political and ecclesiastical centre of the Eastern Roman Empire. The bulk of the book is devoted to an analysis of the written accounts of the lives of the four Constantinopolitan holy men: Hypatios, Alexander Akoimetos, Daniel the Stylite, and Markellos Akoimetos. The analysis proves that the model of relationship between the holy man and the secular authority would change less than the one between the holy man and the ecclesiastical authority. The authors often cast the holy man in the role of "father", who was a kind of patron to the Emperor and his apparatus of government. On the other hand, one can observe a gradual change of the model of the relationship between the holy man and the ecclesiastical authorities from the initial opposition to a fully harmonious partnership. All the "Lives" focus on the idea of the third kind of authority existing alongside the two others; this type of authority is called religious and charismatic.
CN BR180
SN 9783110419221
K1 Christian saints : Byzantine Empire : Biography
K1 Church History : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Christian saints
K1 Church History
K1 Byzantine Studies
K1 Byzanz/ Heilige
K1 Byzanz/ Mönchtum
K1 Classical Studies
K1 Hagiographie
K1 HISTORY / Medieval
K1 Constantinopolitan holy man
K1 Early Byzantine hagiography
K1 Early Constantinopolitan monasticism
K1 Late Antique Constantinople
DO 10.1515/9783110419221