Образы монахинь по материалам византийской агиографической литературы (VIII-XII вв.)

Abstract

The model of female monastic sanctity was investigated in the article on the basis of material of Byzantine hagiographical literature in VIII–XII centuries. It has been found that the images of holy women reflect the ecclesiastical view that female sex represented an obstacle to salvation. The author showed that female monastic images reflected the more rigorous canonical and legislative regulations concerning the nunneries in Byzantium. The article focused even more closely on how this nun’s images reflected the circumstances of the life in the byzantine nunneries, the relations between hegumenness and other nuns, between nuns and monks, recruited qualities of ideal nun in Byzantium. The relationship between historical, cultural events and the main features of images of the nuns and hegumenness was established.