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Asceticism and Monasticism, I. Varieties of Eastern Monasticism

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Author

Editor

  • Winrich Löhr
  • Augustine Casiday

Summary, in English

Recent research on early Eastern monasticism has shown that earlier images of a fairly uniform movement can no longer stand. The chapter reviews earlier scholarship and discusses various froms of monasticism in the East, both generally and in each region. Five distinct types are presented, the ascetic household, the itinerant preaching monks, the recluses or hermits, the groups of anchorites and the cenobites. The theological and social developments are discussed for each of the regions Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Constantinople. Finally the impact of monasticism in the East during the fourth to sixth centuries, ecclesiastically as well as politically, is emphasised.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

637-668

Publication/Series

Cambridge History of Christianity, vol II

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Topic

  • Religious Studies

Keywords

  • apophthegmata
  • Pachomius
  • Evagrius
  • Euthymius
  • Sabas
  • Macarius
  • Alexander the Sleepless
  • Akoimetos
  • Nilus of Ancyra
  • Eutyches
  • John Chrysostom
  • lavra
  • monastery
  • Antony
  • monastic rules

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9780521812443
  • ISBN: 9781139054133