Böcker av Alice-Mary Talbot

This volume includes seventeen essays on Byzantine monasticism, focusing on the 9th to 15th centuries.

In this unprecedented introduction to Byzantine monasticism, based on the Conway Lectures she delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, Alice-Mary Talbot surveys the various forms of monastic life in the Byzantine Empire between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.

One of the most important middle Byzantine saints' lives, The Life of St. Basil the Younger presents the life of a holy man who lived in Constantinople in the first part of the tenth century. The first critical edition in any language, this volume provides the Greek text facing the annotated English translation, as well as an introduction.

The title chosen for this volume of collected studies is deliberately ambiguous. Many of the selected articles do indeed focus on the religious life of Byzantine women. Others treat the theme of women's lives more broadly, and yet others examine the religious life of men.