Description:
"This book is beautifully written. It is elegant in conception, lucid yet graceful in exposition, concise and accessible."--Susan Ashbrook Harvey, author of Asceticism and Society in Crisis
"This book is highly important. Rapp emphasizes continuities between the pre- and post-Constantine periods, a healthy correction to the myopic concentration that characterizes so much previous work on the subject. The range of materials she draws on to make her case is truly impressive, her argument both original and persuasive."--Hal Drake, author of Constantine and the Bishops
Brief description: Claudia Rapp is Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna and the author of Brother-Making in Byzantium: Monks, Laymen and Christian Ritual and numerous articles on the social and literary history of Byzantium.