... the Stylite temple church architecture landscape monasticism asceticism mountain In the early fifth century on a hill adjacent to the village of Telanissos in northern Syria, an ascetic named Symeon ascended a column to pray and seek solitude. 1 His first column was low, somewhere between three...

... women and bishops for religious influence in Late Antiquity. women and patronage bishops Merovingians Christianity historians monasticism © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 To add to episcopal anxiety, female ascetics had the potential to overshadow the fame...

...Joe Glynias This article sheds light on a hitherto unexplored phenomenon that alters our picture of Byzantine monasticism: the monastic culture of the Black Mountain outside Antioch. From 969-1084, the Black Mountain thrived as a destination for a variety of Chalcedonian monks: Greek-speaking...

... to problems in the dossier. It encourages scholars to treat each source on its own terms and re-evaluate the rich interconnections between the textual and archaeological evidence. Stylites Symeon the Younger pilgrimage pilgrimage tokens Antioch (on the Orontes) late antique Syria monasticism...