1st Edition

Greek Monasticism in Southern Italy The Life of Neilos in Context

Edited By Barbara Crostini, Ines Angeli Murzaku Copyright 2018
396 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

396 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

396 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume was conceived with the double aim of providing a background and a further context for the new Dumbarton Oaks English translation of the Life of St Neilos from Rossano , founder of the monastery of Grottaferrata near Rome in 1004. Reflecting this double aim, the volume is divided into two parts. Part I, entitled “Italo-Greek Monasticism,” builds the background to the Life of Neilos... Read more

Introduction

[Barbara Crostini]

Part I: Italo-Greek Monasticism

1. Monastic Spirituality of the Italo-Greek Monks

[David Hester]

2. Italo-Greek Monastic Typika

[Cristina Torre]

3. Greek Monasticism in Campania and Latium from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century

[Vera von Falkenhausen]

4. Art and Architecture for Byzantine Monks in Calabria: Sources, Monuments, Paintings and Objects (Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries)

[Lorenzo Riccardi]

5. Family Hagiography and Christian Resistance in the Tenth Century: The Bioi of Sabas, Christopher and Makarios

[Adele Cilento]

6. Historical Echoes in Italo-Greek Hagiographies of the Norman Age

[Gioacchino Strano]

7. Monastic Interactions Between Calabria and Mount Athos in the Middle Ages

[Enrico Morini]

8. Nicholas-Nektarios of Otranto: A Greek Monk Under Roman Obedience

[Claudio Schiano]

Part II: The Life of St. Neilos

9. Neighbors: Jews and Judaism in the Life of St. Neilos the Younger

[Giancarlo Lacerenza]

10. Calabria and the Muslims During Saint Neilos’s Lifetime

[Alessandro Vanoli]

11. "Ceramiclast" in the Bios of St Neilos

[Raymond Capra]

12. The Homosexual Background Attributed to a Textual Gap in the Life of St Neilos from Rossano: A Re-Evaluation

[Andrea Luzzi]

13. East Meets West, West Meets East?: Constructing Difference in First Life of St Adalbert and in the Life of St Neilos

[David Kalhous]

14. Neilos the Younger and Benedict: The Greek Hymns Composed by Neilos in Campania

[Annick Peters-Custot]

15. Neilos’s Long-Lasting Marks on Grottaferrata’s Identity

[Ines Angeli Murzaku]

16. St. Bartholomew of Grottaferrata Between Tradition and Innovation

[Angela Prinzi]

Biography

Barbara Crostini is Assistant Professor in Byzantine Greek at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, University of Uppsala.

Ines Angeli Murzaku is Professor of Church History at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.