She has pondered this material long and wisely enough to see both the general patterns in the evidence and to be honest about the disjunctures. The result is a masterful and cautious contribution to Byzantine social, cultural, and religious history.

Claudia Rapp. Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual. Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 

From The Medieval Review (TMR). Review by Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro