Sleep and Sleeplessness in Byzantium / / Nikolaos Barkas.
In recent decades certain historians have intimated that Byzantine society - and monastics in particular - suffered from a lack of sleep (whether described in negative terms as sleep deprivation or sleep abstinence). Sleep-abstinence surely permeated Byzantine society: it is encountered in every age...
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Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The mechanics of sleep and sleeplessness
- 3. Sleep-abstinence in the Bible and Hellenic world: An overview
- 4. On Sleep and other demons
- 5. The vigil of monks
- 6. The sleep of laity
- 7. The vigil of the laity
- 8. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index