Brother-making in late-Antiquity and Byzantium : monks, laymen, and Christian ritual
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Brother-making in late-Antiquity and Byzantium : monks, laymen, and Christian ritual
（Onassis series in Hellenic culture）
Oxford University Press, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-334) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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