Greek Monasticism in Southern Italy: The Life of Neilos in Context

ISBN-13: 9781472437907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 381 str.

Ines Angeli Murzaku; Barbara Crostini

Opis

This volume has two foci: introducing a general history of Italo-Greek monasticism and honing in on its most typical representative, St Neilos. Part I is a thorough, primary-source, inter-disciplinary and critical examination of the history, theology, asceticism, hagiography and cultural-artistic traditions of Italo-Greek monasticism from the tenth century to the time of Cardinal Bessarion. The contributions exploring the hagiographical texts of the vitae of the Italo-Greek saints analyze aspects of the medieval way of life in southern Italy during this period. Part II is a rigorous, primary-source-based investigation into the period from the life of the most celebrated and best historically documented Calabrian and Italo-Greek saint, Neilos, founder of the Monastery of Grottaferrata (1004) outside Rome, to the period of the influence of Cardinal Bessarion on the Basilian order, and more generally into Italo-Greek monasticism. Chronologically speaking both parts will be framed and bounded by two characters: Neilos and Bessarion. Thus the volume's two themes - history of this very particular and fluid form of monasticism and its multiplicity of expressions in southern Italy; and the history, life and legacy of Italo-Greek monasticism's most celebrated St Neilos - are two subjects which represent a high degree of interconnectedness. This volume, similar to the translation of Italo-Greek saints' vitae in English, is a long-overdue project and will do much justice to a forgotten page in Byzantine history: Suum Cuique Tribuere, Ea Demum Summa Justitia Est.

Spis treści

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