Founders and refounders of Byzantine monasteries
By: edited by Margaret Mullett
Contributors: Belfast Byzantine International Colloquium (5th : 1998 : Portaferry, Northen Ireland)
Series: Belfast Byzantine texts and translations -- 6.3
Publisher: Belfast Byzantine Enterprises, Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen's University of Belfast
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Belfast]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 575
Subjects: Church history; Congresses; Orthodox Eastern Monasteries; History; Orthodox Eastern Monasticism and religious orders; Monastic and religious life; Theotokos Evergetis (Monastery : Istanbul, Turkey)
Notes: "Papers of the fifth Belfast Byzantine International Colloquium, Portaferry, Co. Down, 17-20 September 1998"--P. [v].

"Select bibliography on founding Byzantine monasteries": p. 529-531.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Founders, refounders, second founders, patrons / Margaret Mullett; title: Why were monasteries founded? / Michel Kaplan; title: Founders' choices : monastery site selection in Byzantium / Alice-Mary Talbot; title: An ascetic founder : the lost first Life of Athanasios the Athonite / Dirk Krausmüller; title: Imperial women founders and refounders in Komnenian Constantinople / Vassiliki Dimitropoulou; title: Small family foundations in Byzantium, eleventh to fourteenth century / Konstantinos Smyrlis; title: Law for founders / Bernard Stolte; title: Byzantine monastic rules before typikon : from the sixth to the eighth century / Peter Hatlie; title: Typika and other texts / Margaret Mullett; title: The tomb of the founder-saint / Dimitra Kotoula; title: John Xenos as a serial founder of monastic establishments / Sophia Oikonomou; title: The Life of St. Lazaros of Galesion : founding and maintaining a successful monastery / Mark Whittow; title: Founders, refounders and copiers : the application of the Typikon of Alexios the Stoudite at the Kievan Caves monastery / Claire Farrimond; title: Economical with the truth : founding and refounding monastic economies / Pamela Armstring; title: Lay founders and first abbots : the cases of John II Komnenos and Basil the Macedonian / Dirk Krausmüller; title: Refounding monasteries in Constantinople under the Komnenoi / Margaret Mullett; title: Paul as founder in the Katechetikon / Barbara Crostini Lappin; title: Paul and the Synagoge / Janet Rutherford; title: Founders and second founders : Paul and Timothy / Robert Jordan; title: Symeon the Sanctified and the refoundation of Xenophontos / Rosemary Morris; title: Founders and refounders of Philotheou monastery on Mt. Athos / Robert W. Allison; title: Future founding / Margaret Mullett.