Professor Andrew Jotischky centers his scholarship on medieval religious beliefs, traditions, and practices, as well as religious institutions. His work delves into medieval monasticism, the Crusades and Crusader States, interactions between Latin and Greek Orthodox Christendom, pilgrimage, and medieval food and diet. Jotischky's research is characterized by a deep interest in how faith manifested in daily life and shaped society. His writing illuminates the complex world of medieval religious movements, emphasizing their historical and cultural contexts for the reader.
Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States explores the parallel histories of monasteries and monasticism in western and Byzantine traditions in the Near East during the Crusader period... číst celé