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Byzantine defenders of images : eight saints' lives in English translation / edited by Alice-Mary Talbot.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Byzantine saints' lives in translation ; 2.
- Byzantine saints' lives in translation ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Christian saints--Byzantine Empire--Biography.
- Christian saints.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Byzantine Empire--Church history.
- Church history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xlii, 404 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [1998]
- Summary:
- The seven vitae feature holy men and women who opposed imperial edicts and suffered for their defense of images, from the nun Theodosia whose efforts to save the icon of Christ Chalkites made her the first iconodule martyr, to Symeon of Lesbos, the pillar saint whose column was attacked by religious fanatics. Life of St. Theodosia of Constantinople Life of St. Stephen the Younger Life of St. Anthousa of Mantineon Life of St. Anthousa, Daughter of Constantine V Life of the Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople Life of Sts. David, Symeon, and George of Lesbos Life of St. Ioannikios Life of St. Theodora the Empress
- Contents:
- Life of St. Theodosia of Constantinople
- Life of St. Stephen the Younger
- Life of St. Anthousa of Mantineon
- Life of St. Anthousa, daughter of Constantine V
- Life of the patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople
- Life of Sts. David, Symeon, and George of Lesbos
- Life of St. Ioannikios
- Life of St. Theodora the Empress.
- Notes:
- Includes 4 selections from the Synaxarion of Constantinople, published in the 10th century.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0884022595
- OCLC:
- 37606171
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