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Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great - Oxford Historical Monographs Leyser, Conrad (Lecturer in Medieval History, Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Manchester)
Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great - Oxford Historical Monographs
Leyser, Conrad (Lecturer in Medieval History, Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Manchester)
When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid in their cloisters - or so it is often assumed. Conrad Leyser shows is that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority. He describes the making of this tradition over two centuries from St Augustine to St Benedict and Gregory the Great.
234 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 30, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198208686 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 236 |
| Dimensions | 148 × 224 × 18 mm · 449 g |
| Language | English |