Kassia the Nun in Context by Kurt Sherry
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1611439698, 9781611439694 | 160 Pages | PDF | 10.58 MB
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1611439698, 9781611439694 | 160 Pages | PDF | 10.58 MB
Kassia the Nun offers a unique glimpse into ninth-century Byzantium in the only woman whose works were included in the corpus of liturgical hymns. This volume explores Kassia's thought on Christology, on gender, and on monasticism itself.