Founders and refounders of Byzantine monasteries [papers of the Fifth Belfast Byzantine International Colloquium, Portaferry, Co. Down, 17 - 20 September 1998] (Belfast Byzantine Enterprises, Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Founders, refounders, second founders, patrons / Margaret Mullett -- Why were monasteries founded? / Michel Kaplan -- Founders' choices : monastery site selection in Byzantium / Alice-Mary Talbot -- An ascetic founder : the lost first Life of Athanasios the Athonite / Dirk Krausmüller -- Imperial women founders and refounders in Komnenian Constantinople / Vassiliki Dimitropoulou -- Small family foundations in Byzantium, eleventh to fourteenth century / Konstantinos Smyrlis -- Law for founders / Bernard Stolte -- Byzantine monastic rules before typikon : from the sixth to the eighth century / Peter Hatlie -- Typika and other texts / Margaret Mullett -- The tomb of the founder-saint / Dimitra Kotoula -- John Xenos as a serial founder of monastic establishments / Sophia Oikonomou -- The Life of St. Lazaros of Galesion : founding and maintaining a successful monastery / Mark Whittow -- Founders, refounders and copiers : the application of the Typikon of Alexios the Stoudite at the Kievan Caves monastery / Claire Farrimond -- Economical with the truth : founding and refounding monastic economies / Pamela Armstring -- Lay founders and first abbots : the cases of John II Komnenos and Basil the Macedonian / Dirk Krausmüller -- Refounding monasteries in Constantinople under the Komnenoi / Margaret Mullett -- Paul as founder in the Katechetikon / Barbara Crostini Lappin -- Paul and the Synagoge / Janet Rutherford -- Founders and second founders : Paul and Timothy / Robert Jordan -- Symeon the Sanctified and the refoundation of Xenophontos / Rosemary Morris -- Founders and refounders of Philotheou monastery on Mt. Athos / Robert W. Allison -- Future founding / Margaret Mullett