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- Title
MONASTIC REFORM AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHRISTENDOM: EXPERIENCE, OBSERVATION AND INFLUENCE.
- Authors
Jotischky, Andrew
- Abstract
Monastic reform is generally understood as a textually driven process governed by a renewed interest in early monastic ideals and practices in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and focusing on the discourses of reformers about the Egyptian ‘desert fathers’ as the originators of monasticism. Historians have suggested that tropes about the desert, solitude, etc., drawn from early texts found their way into mainstream accounts of monastic change in the period c. 1080–1150. This paper challenges this model by proposing that considerations of ‘reform’ must take into account parallel movements in Greek Orthodox monasticism and interactions of practice between the two monastic environments. Three case-studies of non-textually derived parallel practices are discussed, and the importance of the Holy Land as a source of inspiration for such practices is advanced in place of Egypt.
- Subjects
PALESTINE; MONASTICISM &; religious orders; CHURCH renewal; MONASTIC life; DESERTS in religion; ORTHODOXOS Ekklesia tes Hellados; EGYPTIAN religion -- 640-; RELIGION
- Publication
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2012, Vol 22, p57
- ISSN
0080-4401
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0080440112000060