IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1216: Entering a Byzantine Monastery: The Age Question
Wednesday 13 July 2005, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne |
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Organiser: | Béatrice Caseau, Université Paris IV - Sorbonne |
Moderator/Chair: | Béatrice Caseau, Université Paris IV - Sorbonne |
Paper 1216-a | Mentions de l'âge dans les sources monastiques byzantines (Language: Français) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 1216-b | Reading and Singing in Byzantine Monasteries: The Age Question (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Liturgy, Monasticism |
Paper 1216-c | Les iuniores aux monastères fructuosiens: législation et pratiques d'accueil au monastère (Language: Français) Index terms: Monasticism, Social History |
Abstract | This session will concentrate on the question of age when entering a monastic community in the early centuries of the Byzantine Empire. Some monks entered while children, others after a life in the world. Their status in the monastic community and their role in the liturgy dependend in part on their age. |