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Brother-making in late antiquity and Byzantium : monks, laymen, and Christian ritual
An exhaustive treatment of ritual brotherhood in Byzantium, this book challenges the 'Boswell Thesis' and argues that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage, but has its origins in early monasticism
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
: Oxford University Press
, 2016
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| Series: | Onassis series in Hellenic culture
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/oup-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389333.001.0001 |
| Author Notes: | Claudia Rapp |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | An exhaustive treatment of ritual brotherhood in Byzantium, this book challenges the 'Boswell Thesis' and argues that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage, but has its origins in early monasticism |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9780199396795 |
