Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual by Claudia Rapp

Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual

Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture

Claudia Rapp

368 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world...

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