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<p>In recent decades certain historians have intimated that Byzantine society - and monastics in particular - suffered from a lack of sleep (whether described in negative terms as sleep deprivation or sleep abstinence). Sleep-abstinence surely permeated Byzantine society: it is encountered in every age, sex and class, together with its institutions, beliefs, practices, rituals, morals and mythologies. However, sleep is a biological phenomenon as well. One cannot possibly appreciate the Byzantine
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- Author
- Nikolaos Barkas
- Publisher
- Gorgias Press, LLC
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781463235789
- Category
- health
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness, Sleep Medicine, Sleep
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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