Between legal regulations and charisma: Ethiopian normative monastic literature and its functioning
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https://doi.org/10.12775/TiCz.2014.005Keywords
Ethiopia, monasticism, monasteries, monastic rules, Christian EastAbstract
The Christian tradition in Ethiopia harks back to the 4th Century. One of the components of Ethiopia’s Christian heritage is literature in the Gə‘əz language, one of the largest literatures of the Christian East. Texts of monastic charakter are a very significant component of this literature. The article enumerates the most important Ethiopian normative texts i. e. texts which contain regulations concerning monastic life. It is very probable however that these texts were not always regardes as genuine legal prescriptions. Instead, the life of monasteries was regulated by common law and was based on the individual charisma of holy monks.
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