The book explores how the emperors of the middle Byzantine period constructed and maintained close personal ties with members of the monastic order and what these connections can tell us about the ideological, political, and social changes characteristic of this historical epoch. Aside from individual agents, due attention is given to monasteries as institutions that were engaged in an exchange of services and duties with the emperors.

Rosa Benoit-Meggenis, L'empereur et le moine: les relations du pouvoir impérial avec les monastères à Byzance (IXe-XIIIe). Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 73. Lyon: Publications de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2017. 

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Adrian Pirtea, Freie Universität Berlin; Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.