Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MonasByz (The Making of the Byzantine Ascetical Canon: Monastic Networks, Literacy and Religious Authority in Palestine and Sinai (7th-11th centuries))

Palestine and Sinai played a key role in the development of the monastic and ascetic tradition in Eastern Christianity in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. After a demographic and cultural peak during the early Byzantine period (fifth-sixth century), Palestinian monasticism...