@article{1480534,
      author = {Rotman, Youval, },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480534},
      title = {Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium : The Ambiguity of  Religious Experience /},
      abstract = {In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool  emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals  whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher  level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the  figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of  individual and collective transformation prior to the rise  is Islam.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674974432},
      recid = {1480534},
      pages = {1 online resource (244 p.)},
}