عقوبة نفي النساء الارسقراطيات الى الدير في بيزنطة : دراسة في الابعاد السياسية و الاجتماعية (538م-118مق.ه-512ه)‎

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The monastery was a safe place for worship and asceticism for those who wanted to be cut off from the outside world, and living in it was permissible for women and men alike and from all classes of Byzantine society.

Desire and free will are the most important components of staying in the monastery, so the church fathers set certain conditions for entering the monastery and women may be subject to To be tested for a certain period to ascertain the sincerity of their desire and their ability to bear the life of austerity imposed by monastic laws, but there were exceptions to entering the monastery imposed by the ruling political authority, which are cases of exile.

This punishment became over time a phenomenon that accompanies every revolution or change of the political system.

A large share of the forced stay and forced monasticism at the will of the ruler and regardless of the desire of those who intervened in the monastery, and the monastery was turned into an aristocratic prison in which services are available for women