In the 9th century, the Byzantine monks based a monastery here.
In the 11th century Byzantine monks lived in the sanctuary.
Panodorus of Alexandria was an Egyptian Byzantine monk, historian and writer who lived around 400.
Substantial documentary evidence for the presence of Byzantine monks in southern Italy first appears in the 9th and 10th cc.
And this was a real army, not a handful of Moslem traders or Byzantine monks.
In the 9th Century the Byzantine monks founded a monastery there which was used as a refuge place for pilgrims.
It is a common form among Byzantine monks.
The rest is interesting as an example of Byzantine ideas on the subjects, and of the questions that most interested Byzantine monks.
It was popular among Byzantine monks, but disputed and finally condemned in 553.
The palimpsest is believed to have been created by Byzantine monks in the 13th century, probably in Constantinople.