Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great
, by Leyser, ConradNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198208686 | 0198208685
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/30/2000
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.