عنوان

Saints of ninth- and tenth-century Greece /

(Number (ISBN

0674237366

(Number (ISBN

9780674237360

Title Proper

Saints of ninth- and tenth-century Greece /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited and translated by Anthony Kaldellis and Ioannis Polemis.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2019

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxix, 353 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm.

Series Title

Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ;

Volume Designation

DOML 54

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-348) and index.

Text of Note

"Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history--when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar, Slavic, and Arab attacks and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. The bishops of the region provided much-needed leadership and institutional stability, while ascetics established hermitages and faced invaders. The Lives gathered here include accounts of Peter of Argos, which offers insight into episcopal authority in medieval Greece, and Theodore of Kythera, an important source for the history of piracy in the Aegean Sea.This volume, which illustrates the literary variety of saints' Lives, presents Byzantine Greek texts written by locals in the provinces and translated here into English for the first time.".--

Parallel Title

Saints of 9th- and 10th-century Greece

Christian hagiography-- History and criticism.

Christian literature, Byzantine-- History and criticism.

Christian saints-- Greece, Biography, Early works to 1800.

Saints-- Greece, Biography, Early works to 1800.

Christian hagiography.

Christian literature, Byzantine.

Christian saints.

Saints.

Greece.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Kaldellis, Anthony

Polemēs, I.

Date of Transaction

20200822121645.0

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