Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

by Conrad Leyser

Overview

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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198208686
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/30/2000
Series:	Oxford Historical Monographs
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.69(d)