Greek Monasticism in Southern Italy The Life of Neilos in Context

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Italo-Greek Monasticism ......15 Monastic spirituality of the Italo-Greek monks ........17 Italo- greek monastic typika .........44 Greek Monasticism in Campania and latinum from the tenth to the fifteenth century .........78 Art and architecture for byzantine monks in calabria: Sources, Monuments, paintings and objects ........96 Family hagiography and christian resistance in the tenth century: The bioi of saba , christopher and makarios ........144 Historical echoes in Italo-greek hagiographies of the norman age .......164 2. The life of St. Neilos ...........227 Neighbors: Jews and judaism in the life of st. Neilos the Younger ................229 Calabria and the muslims during saint neilos`s Lifetime .....246 Ceramiclast in the bios of st. Neilos ...........258 The homosexual background attributed to a textual gap in the life of st. Neilos from rossano ..................267 East meets west, west meets east ...........282