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This volume was conceived with the double aim of providing a background and a further context for the new Dumbarton Oaks English translation of the Life of St Neilos from Rossano, founder of the monastery of Grottaferrata near Rome in 1004. Reflecting this double aim, the volume is divided into two parts. Part I, entitled "Italo-Greek Monasticism," builds the background to the Life of Neilos by taking several multi-disciplinary approaches to the geographical area, history and literature of the region denoted as Southern Italy. Part II, entitled "The Life of St Neilos," offers close analyses of the text of Neilos's hagiography from socio-historical, textual, and contextual perspectives. Together, the two parts provide a solid introduction and offer in-depth studies with original outcomes and wide-ranging bibliographies. Using monasticism as a connecting thread between the various zones and St Neilos as the figure who walked over mountains and across many cultural divides, the essays in this volume span all regions and localities and try to trace thematic arcs between individual testimonies. They highlight the multicultural context in which Southern Italian Christians lived and their way of negotiating differences with Arab and Jewish neighbors through a variety of sources, and especially in saints' lives.

Monastic and religious life --- Basilians --- Christian saints --- Christian hagiography. --- Nilus, --- Bios kai politeia tou hosiou patros hēmōn Neilou tou neou. --- Christian hagiography --- Bios kai politeia tou hosiou patros hēmōn Neilou tou neou --- Bios kai politeia tou hosiou patros hēmōn Neilou tou Neou. --- Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders --- Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders. --- Religion. --- History --- To 1500. --- Italy, Southern --- Southern Italy. --- Neilos --- Νεῖλος --- Nilus the younger --- Neilos of Rossano --- Monastic and religious life - Italy, Southern --- Monastic and religious life - Byzantine Empire --- Basilians - Italy, Southern --- Basilians - Byzantine Empire --- Christian saints - Italy, Southern - Biography --- Christian saints - Byzantine Empire - Biography --- Nilus ab. Cryptae Ferratae --- Nilus, - the Younger, Saint, - -1004

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Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis that pronounces two men as brothers. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social networking strategy among lay people from the ninth century onwards, even finding application in recent times. Located at the intersection of religious and social history, brother-making exemplifies how social practice can become ritualized and subsequently subjected to attempts of ecclesiastical and legal control. Wide-ranging in its use of sources, from a complete census of the manuscripts containing the ritual of adelphopoiesis to the literature and archaeology of early monasticism, and from the works of hagiographers, historiographers, and legal experts in Byzantium to comparative material in the Latin West and the Slavic world, this book is the first exhaustive treatment of the phenomenon.

Monastic and religious life --- Rites and ceremonies --- Homosexuality --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Monastic life --- Spirituality (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Spiritual life --- Vows --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Christianity --- Byzantine Empire --- Church history. --- Church history --- 271 "04/05" --- 281.049 --- 281.049 Vie monastique dans les Eglises orientales --- 281.049 Monastiek leven in de Oosterse kerken --- Vie monastique dans les Eglises orientales --- Monastiek leven in de Oosterse kerken --- 271 "04/05" Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--?"04/05" --- 271 "04/05" Ordres religieux. Congregations religieuses. Monachisme--?"04/05" --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--?"04/05" --- Ordres religieux. Congregations religieuses. Monachisme--?"04/05" --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Monastic and religious life - Byzantine Empire --- Rites and ceremonies - Byzantine Empire --- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Adelphopoiesis --- Byzance --- Byzantine Empire - Church history