Brother Making In Late Antiquity And Byzantium
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Brother Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Author | : Claudia Rapp |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199908387 |
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Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. 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 religion and society, brother-making exemplifies how social practice can become ritualized and subsequently subjected to attempts of ecclesiastical and legal control. Controversially, adelphopoiesis was at the center of a modern debate about the existence of same-sex unions in medieval Europe. This book, the first ever comprehensive history of this unique feature of Byzantine life, argues persuasively that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage. 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, Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium examines the fascinating religious and social features of the ritual, shedding light on little known aspects of Byzantine society.
When Brothers Dwell in Unity
Author | : Stephen Morris |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781476622149 |
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In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homosexual impulses of adult males. What most disturbed monastic leaders was adolescent males being accepted as novices; adult men were considered unable to control their sexual desires for these "beautiful boys." John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople (397-407), virulently denounced homosexuality, but was virtually the only Byzantine cleric to do so. Penances traditionally attached to heterosexual sins--including remarriage after divorce or widowhood--have always been much more severe than those for a variety of homosexual acts or relationships. Just as Byzantine churches have found ways to accommodate sequential marriages and other behavior once stridently condemned, this book argues, it is possible for Byzantine Christianity to make pastoral accommodations for gay relationships and same-sex marriage.
The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity
Author | : Sofie Remijsen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107050785 |
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A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.
Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition 867 1056
Author | : Zachary Chitwood |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107182561 |
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An accessible and innovative introductory study of Byzantine law in its wider societal context under the Macedonian dynasty.
Labour and Christianity in the Mission
Author | : Michelle Liebst |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781847012753 |
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Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers.
A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine
Author | : Anne McCabe |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2007-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199277551 |
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The veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica is a rich and little-known source of information about the care and medical treatment of horses, donkeys, and mules in late antiquity and the Byzantine period. This book provides a guide both to its intriguing contents, and to its complex textual history.
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity
Author | : Claudia Rapp |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2013-08-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520280175 |
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Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop—as the highest Church official in his city—from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the development of the Church as an institution, and to bring to the fore the continued importance of the religious underpinnings of the bishop's role as civic leader. Rapp rejects Max Weber’s categories of “charismatic” versus “institutional” authority that have traditionally been used to distinguish the nature of episcopal authority from that of the ascetic and holy man. Instead she proposes a model of spiritual authority, ascetic authority and pragmatic authority, in which a bishop’s visible asceticism is taken as evidence of his spiritual powers and at the same time provides the justification for his public role. In clear and graceful prose, Rapp provides a wholly fresh analysis of the changing dynamics of social mobility as played out in episcopal appointments.
British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece
Author | : S. Evangelista |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2009-05-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230242203 |
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This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.