Monastic Onomastics
Year: 2006
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: INTRODUCTIONAs Giles Constable has stated, “Entry into monastic life was a second baptism, which involved at the same time death to life in this world and rebirth into a life cleansed of sin.” As a result of this attitude it became traditional for Byzantine monks and nuns to assume a new name at the time of monastic tonsure to symbolize the end of their life in the secular world and their assumption of a new identity as a member of a monastic community.The clearest statement of this traditio...
Source: Éditions de la Sorbonne eBooks
Authors: Alice-Mary Talbot, Stamatina McGrath
Language: French
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4242807758