Nuns in the Byzantine Countryside
Abstract
Scholarship has focused primarily on the better known aristocratic nuns who tended to live in urban convents. This article presents evidence for a substantial number of rural nuns in late Byzantium (13th-15th c.), derived especially from donor inscriptions in small village churches in Crete, Lakonia, Mani and Rhodes. Many of these nuns were elderly widows, some had taken the monastic habit on their deathbed, and some may have lived in a type of house monastery.
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GERSTEL, S. E. J., & TALBOT, A.-M. (2011). Nuns in the Byzantine Countryside. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 27, 481–490. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.506
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