Nuns in the Byzantine Countryside
Part of : Δελτίον της Χριστιανικής Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας ; Vol.45, 2006, pages 481-490
Issue:
Pages:
481-490
Parallel Title:
Μοναχές στη βυζαντινή ύπαιθρο
Section Title:
Articles
Abstract:
Scholarship has focused primarily on the better known aristocratic nuns who tended to live in urban convents. This article presents evidence for a substantial number of rural nuns in late Byzantium (13th-15th c.), derived especially from donor inscriptions in small village churches in Crete, Lakonia, Mani and Rhodes. Many of these nuns were elderly widows, some had taken the monastic habit on their deathbed, and some may have lived in a type of house monastery.
Subject:
Subject (LC):
Keywords:
13th-15th centuries, Crete, Lakonia, Mani, Rhodes, rural nuns, donor inscriptions, 13ος-15ος αιώνας, Κρήτη, Λακωνία, Μάνη, Ρόδος, μοναχές της υπαίθρου, αφιερωτικές επιγραφές
Notes:
Οι περιλήψεις παρέχονται από πηγή εκτός τεκμηρίου, 856: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltion/article/view/4297, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.506
