The Life of Saint Pankratios of Taormina, Greek text, English translation and commentary.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cynthia Stallman-Pacitti (Author); John Bernard Burke (Editor)

Contributor:

• Burke, John, 1945- editor.

Series:

• Byzantina Australiensia 22.
• Byzantina Australiensia ; Volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Christian saints.
• Christian martyrs.
• Life of Saint Pankratios of Taormina.
• Pancras, of Taormina, Saint, -approximately 40.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (538 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Summary:

The Life of St Pankratios of Taormina describes the mission and martyrdom of St Pankratios, a disciple of the Apostle Peter sent to evangelize Taormina as its first bishop, and purports to have been written by St Pankratios’ successor, Euagrios. The text was composed in the early eighth century and is of Sicilian provenance. The Life contributes to our understanding of the Byzantine attitude to the past and of the novelistic approach to hagiography. It touches on the topography of Sicily and Calabria, ecclesiastical arrangements in Sicily, civil and military administration, the Sicilian language question, church decoration, liturgical rites, book production, and the attitude to religious images.

Contents:

• Front Matter
• Copyright Page / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Editor’s Note / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Preface / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Abbreviations / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Introduction / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Conspectus Siglorum / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Explanation of the Apparatus Criticus / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Text and Translation / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Βίος τοῦ ἐν ἁγίοις πατρὸς ἡμῶν Παγκρατίου ἀρχιπροέδρου τῆς Ταυρομενιτῶν πόλεως, συγγραφεὶς ὑπὸ Εὐαγρίου τοῦ αὐτοῦ μαθητοῦ καὶ οἰκέτου / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Appendix / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Back Matter
• Bibliography / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti
• Index / Cynthia J. Stallman-Pacitti.

Notes:

• Outgrowth of the author's thesis (D.Phil.--Oxford, 1986).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

90-04-36644-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004366442 DOI