Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents

FAIN: RL-20230-82

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
John P. Thomas (Project Director: June 1981 to October 1990)

To support translation of and extensive commentary on Byzantine monastic foundation documents. The 50 extant documents, which describe monastic life andfrom 9th-15th centuries, are an important source for church, social, economic, and art historians, liturgists, musicologists and other Medieval specialists.