Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

By Conrad Leyser

When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid in their cloisters--or so it is often assumed. Conrad Leyser shows that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority. He describes the making of this tradition over two centuries from St. Augustine to St. Benedict and Gregory the Great.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198208685
• ISBN13: 9780198208686
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"