Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great by Conrad Leyser

Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

Conrad Leyser

240 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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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 lang...

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