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Miracle Tales from Byzantium
Alice-Mary Talbot
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Description for Miracle Tales from Byzantium
Hardback. Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. They deepen our understanding of attitudes toward miracles and display the remarkable range of registers in which Greek could be written during the Byzantine period. Translator(s): Talbot, Alice-Mary; Johnson, Dr. Scott Fitzgerald. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HRCC2; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 210 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. Together, the collections offer an exceptional variety of miracles from the Byzantine era. First are the fifth-century Miracles of Saint Thekla. Legendary female companion of the Apostle Paul, Thekla counted among the most revered martyrs of the early church. Her Miracles depict activities, at once extraordinary and ordinary, in a rural healing shrine at a time when Christianity was still supplanting traditional religion. A half millennium later comes another anonymous ... Read more
Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. Together, the collections offer an exceptional variety of miracles from the Byzantine era. First are the fifth-century Miracles of Saint Thekla. Legendary female companion of the Apostle Paul, Thekla counted among the most revered martyrs of the early church. Her Miracles depict activities, at once extraordinary and ordinary, in a rural healing shrine at a time when Christianity was still supplanting traditional religion. A half millennium later comes another anonymous ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Condition
New
Weight
597g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674059030
SKU
V9780674059030
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About Alice-Mary Talbot
Alice-Mary Talbot is Director of Byzantine Studies Emerita, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is Dumbarton Oaks Teaching Fellow in Postclassical and Byzantine Greek in the Classics Department at Georgetown University.
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