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Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture)
BrotherMaking in Late Antiquity and Byzantium Monks Laymen and Christian Ritual - Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
Author: Claudia Rapp
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195389333
ISBN-10: 0195389336
Publication Date: 2/1/2016
Pages: 344
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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