Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

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Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great by Leyser, Conrad, 9780198208686
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  • ISBN: 9780198208686 | 0198208685
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 11/30/2000

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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 language of moral authority. He describes the making of this tradition over two centuries from St. Augustine to St. Benedict and Gregory the Great.