Irene Jacobs

Acknowledgements	8
Introduction	12
Chapter 1: A reconsideration of the ideal of stability in Byzantine monasticism	36
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	68
Chapter 3: Representations of travel motivation in the Lives of Gregory of Decapolis, Euthymius the Younger and Elias the Younger	112
Chapter 4: Conceptual metaphors of travel and stability in the Life of Gregory of Decapolis	174
Conclusion	202
Appendices	218
Maps of the saints’ journeys	236
Bibliography	240

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