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Hardcover Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual Book

ISBN: 0195389336

ISBN13: 9780195389333

Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual

(Part of the Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture Series)

Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. 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 application in recent times. Located at the intersection of religion and...

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