Integrating Outsiders, Preserving Identity: Byzantine Policies on Foreign Monks (9th-12th Centuries) KU Leuven
The project focuses on two objectives. Firstly, it provides an extensive description of monks’ mobilities in the Byzantine world at both the local and regional scale in a specified period (9th-12th centuries). The research reconstructs the typology of Byzantine monastic movements, highlights the ethnic and social origin of monks, as well as the reasons for their move, maps the major routes of monastic migrations, integrates the phenomenon ...