Claudia Rapp is Director of the Division of Byzantine Research, Institute for Medieval Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences.She was awarded the 2015 Wittgenstein Prize, the most prestigious scientific award in Austria.

This book is an erudite study on asceticism in Late Antiquity and Byzantium. Written by the eminent scholar Claudia Rapp ... it is a fascinating and welcome contribution to the field of early monasticism ... This is an excellent book, indispensable for scholars of asceticism in the later Roman world, and well worth the attention of a broader audience. Written by a brilliant scholar, Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium is equally valuable for research and teaching.

• Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations, Spelling and Transliteration ; Introduction ; One: Social Structures ; Two: The Ritual of Adelphopoiesis ; Three: The Origins: Small-Group Monasticism in Late Antiquity ; Four: The Social Practice of Brother-Making in Byzantium ; Five: Prescriptions and Restrictions in Byzantium ; Six: Beyond Byzantium ; Appendix 1: List of Manuscripts ; Appendix 2: Table of Prayers ; Appendix 3: Prayers in Translation ; Bibliography: Sources ; Bibliography: Scholarly Literature