Table of contents Acknowledgements 8 Introduction 12 Chapter 1: A reconsideration of the ideal of stability in Byzantine monasticism 1.1 Introduction 36 1.2 Stabilitas loci: the term 38 1.3 Stabilitas loci: the concept 40 1.3.1 The Rules of Basil of Caesarea (ca. 330 - 379) 42 1.3.2 The Council of Chalcedon (451) 49 1.3.3 Justinian’s Novels (534-565) 54 1.4 Conclusion 61 Chapter 2: Mobility, immobility and sainthood: a semantic and discourse analysis of hesychia in the Lives of Gregory of Decapolis, Euthymius the Younger and Elias the Younger 2.1 Introduction 68 2.2 Hesychia: a semantic analysis 72 2.2.1 Roots: hesychia in late-antique monastic literature 72 2.2.2 Hesychia according to Photius 75 2.2.3 An activity or a state of being? Hesychia as a verb 78 2.3 Hesychia, space and (im)mobility in the Lives of Gregory of Decapolis and Euthymius the Younger 82 2.3.1 The relation between hesychia and space 82 2.3.2 Types of spaces and their qualities 83 2.3.2.1 Interior, enclosed spaces 84 2.3.2.2 Exterior spaces: wilderness versus the city 88 2.3.2.3 Shared spatial characteristics: visibility 91 2.3.2.4 Shared spatial characteristics: permeable boundaries 93 2.3.3 Space, hesychia and the representation of sainthood 93 2.3.4 Hesychia, immobility and mobility 94 2.4 Hesychia, immobility and mobility in the Life of Elias the Younger 99 2.5 Conclusion 105 6
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