10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STYLITISM»
Discover the use of
stylitism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stylitism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Monks and Monasteries of the Near East
Gregory of Tours, in his Historia Francorum, tells how, in the middle of the sixth
century, a monk from Lombardy tried to introduce stylitism to Carignan, in the
Ardennes. The local bishops were soon up in arms against a practice which they
...
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Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century
249 So it is possible that stylitism also found its way into monasteries in this
region of strong Ghassanid presence and was expressed in the form of a pillar
that served as living quarters for a monk.250 The Arabs and the Ghassanids in ...
3
Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity
There is still vigorous scholarly debate about the origins of this tradition in late
antique Oriens, and whether the model for stylitism should be recognised in
Hellenistic philosophy (e.g. the Dionysian phallobatai in Hierapolis/Syria) or
Christianity ...
David Morton Gwynn, Susanne Bangert, 2010
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The new Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge
Only one effort is known to have been made to introduce stylitism into the West. In
585 a deacon named Wulflaicus erected a pillar near Treves, but the bishops
compelled him to descend from it and then destroyed it. Occidental antagonism to
...
Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, 1911
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Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529
The midrash corroborates the existence of stylite pillars at the Syrian temples and
provides a good example of adapting stylitism to a monotheistic religion. Finally,
it brings the continuity of Syrian polytheistic stylitism down to the later fourth ...
6
Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of His Day
The answers addressed to John the Stylite contain many general liturgical issues
which are not directly related to stylitism. More characteristic in this respect is the
discussion on whether stylites have the right to keep the consecrated bread on ...
R. B. ter Haar Romeny, 2008
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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Stylitism is one of the more extreme and original forms of Eastern Christian
asceticism. The stylites' pillars stood near monasteries or villages, were usually
ten to twenty meters high, and were equipped with a balcony, parapet, and
roofing.
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After Bardaisan: Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac ...
In that study, Professor Drijvers argued vehemently that pagan parallels to the
Christian practice of stylitism were a matter of superficial similarities, without any
real significance for what Simeon the Stylite (d. 459) and his successors meant
for ...
G. J. Reinink, Alexander Cornelis Klugkist, 1999
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Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century: pt. 1, ...
249 So it is possible that stylitism also found its way into monasteries in this
region of strong Ghassanid presence and was expressed in the form of a pillar
that served as living quarters for a monk.250 The Arabs and the Ghassanids in ...
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Men possessed by God: the story of the desert monks of ...
He therefore had, for a time, to renounce stylitism and let himself be forgotten by
withdrawing for ten years to the most inaccessible solitudes of Mount Admirable ;
after which, at the age of thirty, he returned to the world of men and had a pillar ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STYLITISM»
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stylitism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Flagpole sitting was in some ways related to the ascetic discipline of Stylitism, where aspiring saints would climb up on top of a column and live there for the rest ... «Death and Taxes, May 13»
It was 'Mad' for man to climb courthouse 60 years ago
But that doesn't hold a candle to the Wikipedia report that also says the action is related to an "ancient ascetic discipline of Stylitism, or column sitting. St. Simeon ... «The Daily Jeffersonian, Feb 12»
