Maximus the Confessor and his companions : documents from exile / edited and translated by Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Allen, Pauline, 1948-
• Neil, Bronwen.

Series:

• Oxford early Christian texts

Language:

• English
• Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Monothelitism.
• Maximus, Confessor, Saint, approximately 580-662.

Physical Description:

xiv, 210 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The seven documents in this book, which appear for the first time in an English translation from Greek and Latin, constitute a unique contemporary witness to the stalwart opposition of the monk Maximus the Confessor to seventh-century imperial edicts enforcing adherence to the doctrines of monoenergism and monothelitism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-195) and indexes.

ISBN:

0198299915

OCLC:

48674604