La cultura monástica bizantina en el origen de la Orden de los Hospitalarios

Esteban Greif

doi:10.48162/rev.35.018

Authors

Esteban Greif Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.35.018

Keywords:

Byzantium, Hospitallers, monastic care, charity, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

Abstract

One of the services provided by the byzantine monasteries was the lodging provision and care for the poor, the sick and peregrines. This task had in the Holy Land an enduring imprint that did not disappear neither under the Arabic rule or the European after the First Crusade. Indeed, many aspects from the byzantine world have been detected in the art, the economy and society established by the Europeans in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. In the same way, historians have registered more than one loan and influence from the Greek ecclesiastical organization on that deployed by the Francs in the crusaders states. In this work we explore on the elements of the monastic byzantine culture that existed in the Syrian–Palestinian area and their influence on the origin of the brotherhood of the Hospitallers and the medical–assistance activity they displayed in the Holy City.

Author Biography

Esteban Greif, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

Licenciado en Historia (Universidad de Buenos Aires) y Doctor en Historia (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella). Docente investigador de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA. Investigador Asistente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. (Argentina).

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