Ebook: Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience
Author: Youval Rotman
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Language: English
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In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective transformation prior to the rise is Islam.
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