Insanity and sanctity in byzantium: the ambiguity of religious experience
Auteur :
Rotman, Youval
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674057616
Date de publication :
7 janv. 2021
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.