Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium
Youval Rotman
Harvard University Press, 2021
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780674057616
- ISBN-10
- 0674057619
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 2021
- Publication date
- 2021-01-07
- Pages
- 272
- Dimensions
- 206x243x25
- Weight
- 544