The Life of Theodotus, Bishop of Amida (d. 698): Sanctity and Liminality on the Frontier Between Byzantium and Islam, Andrew Palmer, Robert Hoyland

Автор: Rotman Youval
Название: Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium
ISBN: 0674057619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674057616
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective transformation prior to the rise is Islam.