Title: Das Mönchtum in der Religionspolitik Kaiser Justinians I.
Description: "With his religious politics and his self-representation as the vicar of God on Earth, Justinian I (527-565) had an enduring impact on Late Antiquity. What part did monks, believed to be heavenly angels, play in promoting this notion? This book offers the first exhaustive investigation of Justinian's personal relations to monkhood and the role of monks in religious and legislative politics"--
Subjects: Politics and government, Monasticism and religious orders, History, Church history, Church and state, Justinian i, emperor of the east, 483?-565, Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Byzantine empire, politics and government, Byzantine empire, history, Primitive and early church
Places: Byzantine Empire, Greece
People: Justinian I Emperor of the East (483?-565)
Time periods: Justinian I, 527-565, Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, 527-1081