John Moschos’ Spiritual Meadow: Authority and Autonomy at the End of the Antique World. By Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen . Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2014. xv + 181 pp. $149.95 cloth.

Abstract

it pushes research towards new directions through its approach; for the historian of Late Antiquity and Byzantium, it highlights the significant place of liturgy in Byzantine life and culture and moves liturgy from the periphery of the discussion of things Byzantine to its very center; for the Byzantine liturgical historian, it is a call to move beyond the presentation and history of liturgical texts and rites to the deeper study of the effect and formative power of these texts on the Byzantine worshipper; for both, it is a call for an active dialogue among the various disciplines in Byzantine Studies.