The main question that the present paper tries to answer is as fol- lows: since two discordant pr... more The main question that the present paper tries to answer is as fol- lows: since two discordant precepts concerning work were to be found in the New Testament, how did monks behave? One precept treated work as a duty, the other recommended not to care about one’s maintenance. The monks followed in their behaviour either the first or the second precept. As a result of disputes that took place in the fourth century the opinion prevailed that work was the better choice. It is important for us to find out when and under what circumstances that choice was done by the majority of the monastic movement in the East. It is also important to see what arguments were used by the monks of Late Antiquity in order to settle the conflict between the two discordant precepts. This conflict worried many and caused a renewal of a dispute that seemed to have been closed. Two ways of reasoning in favour of monastic work were generally used: monks might and should pray and work at the same time, satisfying...
... hors and Michel Garel, Jean-Michel Carrié, Mireille Corbier, Hélène Cuvigny and Adam Bülow-Ja... more ... hors and Michel Garel, Jean-Michel Carrié, Mireille Corbier, Hélène Cuvigny and Adam Bülow-Jacobsen, Denis Feissel, Danielle Haase-Dubosc, Chantal Heurtel, Arietta Papaconstantinou and Jean-Claude Waquet, Delphine Renaut and Frederick Lauritzen, Suzanne ...
La subvention instituee par Constantin le Grand et a laquelle se referent trois historiens de l&#... more La subvention instituee par Constantin le Grand et a laquelle se referent trois historiens de l'Eglise, Soctate le Scholastique (H.E. II, 17, 1-2), Sozomene (H.E. III, 9, 5; V, 5, 2-4), Theodoret (H.E. I, 11, 2-3; IV, 4), ainsi qu'Athanase (Apologia secunda, 18; Historia Arianorum, 10, 3; 31, 2; 63, 1), etait destinee exclusivement au clerge et ne devait pas servir, comme on le pense generalement, a l'activite caritative de l'Eglise. Outre les membres du clerge, avaient droit a participer aux distributions de ble egalement les « veuves » et les « vierges »: non pas toutes les veuves ou toutes les vierges, ni les veuves ou les vierges pauvres, mais toutes celles (pauvres ou riches) qui avaient solennellement promis de ne pas se marier et qui avaient ete inscrites par les eveques sur des listes speciales. Le statut de ces deux groupes prestigieux de femmes etait ambivalent: elles n'appartenaient naturellement pas au clerge, mais etaient situees tout pres de celui-c...
The main question that the present paper tries to answer is as fol- lows: since two discordant pr... more The main question that the present paper tries to answer is as fol- lows: since two discordant precepts concerning work were to be found in the New Testament, how did monks behave? One precept treated work as a duty, the other recommended not to care about one’s maintenance. The monks followed in their behaviour either the first or the second precept. As a result of disputes that took place in the fourth century the opinion prevailed that work was the better choice. It is important for us to find out when and under what circumstances that choice was done by the majority of the monastic movement in the East. It is also important to see what arguments were used by the monks of Late Antiquity in order to settle the conflict between the two discordant precepts. This conflict worried many and caused a renewal of a dispute that seemed to have been closed. Two ways of reasoning in favour of monastic work were generally used: monks might and should pray and work at the same time, satisfying...
... hors and Michel Garel, Jean-Michel Carrié, Mireille Corbier, Hélène Cuvigny and Adam Bülow-Ja... more ... hors and Michel Garel, Jean-Michel Carrié, Mireille Corbier, Hélène Cuvigny and Adam Bülow-Jacobsen, Denis Feissel, Danielle Haase-Dubosc, Chantal Heurtel, Arietta Papaconstantinou and Jean-Claude Waquet, Delphine Renaut and Frederick Lauritzen, Suzanne ...
La subvention instituee par Constantin le Grand et a laquelle se referent trois historiens de l&#... more La subvention instituee par Constantin le Grand et a laquelle se referent trois historiens de l'Eglise, Soctate le Scholastique (H.E. II, 17, 1-2), Sozomene (H.E. III, 9, 5; V, 5, 2-4), Theodoret (H.E. I, 11, 2-3; IV, 4), ainsi qu'Athanase (Apologia secunda, 18; Historia Arianorum, 10, 3; 31, 2; 63, 1), etait destinee exclusivement au clerge et ne devait pas servir, comme on le pense generalement, a l'activite caritative de l'Eglise. Outre les membres du clerge, avaient droit a participer aux distributions de ble egalement les « veuves » et les « vierges »: non pas toutes les veuves ou toutes les vierges, ni les veuves ou les vierges pauvres, mais toutes celles (pauvres ou riches) qui avaient solennellement promis de ne pas se marier et qui avaient ete inscrites par les eveques sur des listes speciales. Le statut de ces deux groupes prestigieux de femmes etait ambivalent: elles n'appartenaient naturellement pas au clerge, mais etaient situees tout pres de celui-c...
Philoxenite on the Lake Mareotis: a Town for Pilgrims Built under Justinian, 2024
The aim of this study is to recreate the 'real reality' experienced by the travellers on the road... more The aim of this study is to recreate the 'real reality' experienced by the travellers on the road to Abu Mina, especially of those who would arrive through Philoxenite. I will not be dealing with individual or social imaginations and emotional reactions of people coming into direct contact with the sacrum. Numerous works on this topic have been published 1, and I assume that the reader is familiar with at least some of them. I will, therefore, plunge right in medias res without further reminders about the significance of this topic.
We possess a substantial amount of knowledge about how the Patriarch of Alexandria wielded power ... more We possess a substantial amount of knowledge about how the Patriarch of Alexandria wielded power over his subordinate bishops. This picture can be now enriched thanks to the present thorough study of the lists of episcopal delegations to councils which took place both in Egypt and outside it. The study's result allows us to state that, as time went by, the participation of bishops in the dioceses of the Delta increased at the expense of bishops from the Thebaid. To explain this shift in participation, the author examined the information about the Church of the Delta contained in an enormous corpus of 2,000 letters of Isidore of Pelusium (the first half of 5th c.). Isidore maintained correspondence with Cyril of Alexandria, thirty-one bishops, and numerous members of the clergy, mainly originating from dioceses in the eastern part of the Delta (province Augustamnica I). The article also provides information on the duration of travel from different cities to Alexandria, which is helpful to determine the extent to which travel time inclined patriarchs to favour the bishops of the Delta over their colleagues from the Nile Valley.
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