The Monks and Monasteries of Constantinople, ca. 350-850

Peter Hatlie is Visiting Associate Professor and Academic Director at the University of Dallas Rome Program in Italy.

Review of the hardback: 'This is [an] important book which fills a gap. It covers the crucial period before that treated in Rosemary Morris's excellent Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843–1118 (1995), and it provides a detailed and comprehensive treatment of the neglected subject of monks and monasteries in Constantinople itself. … It will certainly become a standard work.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• Introduction; Part I. Poverty, Politics and Patronage (ca. 300–565): 1. Developing trends in early Byzantine monasticism, ca. 300–565; 2. The founding generations of monks in Constantinople, ca. 350–430; 3. Conflict and confidence, ca. 430–518; 4. Compromise and its rewards in the age of Justinian and Theodora, 518–565; Part II. Stability and Loss (565–ca. 730): 5. Useful partners in the late antique city, 565–ca. 610; 6. Lost in adversity, ca. 610– 730; Part III. Noble Monks and New Causes (ca. 730–850): 7. The monastic social context: numbers, families, friendship and fraternities; 8. The great expansion of monastic institutions; 9. Monks in the world; 10. Monks and culture; Conclusion; Appendix 1. A master list of the monasteries of Constantinople (ca. 350–850); Appendix 2. A catalogue of iconodule bishops and metropolitans (815–843); Appendix 3. A catalogue of iconodule abbots, abbesses and important monks and nuns (815–843); Appendix 4. A select list of monastic authors working in Constantinople (ca. 730–850); Appendix 5. Maps.