This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics?John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor?to determine the Church’s power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the ea
"This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics-John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor-to determine the Church's power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the e
Graduate students of religion and classics explore the construction of social power through person, text, and space in early Christianity; but also the reception of that process, and with it indiffere
This is the first translation of the Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 into any modern language, and the first with a commentary. The synod was a major event in ecclesiastical history, representing the
