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Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014

1 online resource (412 pages)

ISBN 9780520956582 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780520280427 (hardback)

Transformation of the classical heritage ; LII

Print version: Booth, Phil. Crisis of empire : doctrine and dissent at the end of late antiquity. Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014 xv, 393 pages Transformation of the classical heritage ; LII ISBN 9780520280427

Includes bibliographical references and index

"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 eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion. By asserting visions which reconciled long-standing intellectual tensions between asceticism and Church, these authors established the framework for their subsequent emergence as Constantinople’s most vociferous religious critics, their alliance with the Roman popes, and their radical rejection of imperial interference in matters of the faith. Situated within the broader religious currents of the fourth to seventh centuries, this book throws new light on the nature not only of the holy man in late antiquity, but also of the Byzantine Orthodoxy that would emerge in the Middle Ages, and which is still central to the churches of Greece and Eastern Europe"-- Provided by publisher..

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