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Authority and asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great /

When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid their cloisters. Conrad Leyser shows that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leyser, Conrad
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2000.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:
Asceticism > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Authority > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Monasticism and religious orders > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Ascétisme > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Monachisme et ordres religieux > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Asceticism > Early church
Monasticism and religious orders > Early church
Christendom.
Ascetisme.
Gezag.
30-600
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid their cloisters. Conrad Leyser shows that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 221 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-215) and index.
ISBN:9780191543333
0191543330