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Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience Youval Rotman
Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience
Youval Rotman
In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective transformation prior to the rise is Islam.
244 pages
| Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
| Lançado | 7 de janeiro de 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674057616 |
| Editoras | Harvard University Press |
| Páginas | 272 |
| Dimensões | 243 × 206 × 25 mm · 544 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |