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Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece (Hardcover)
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Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece (Hardcover)
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
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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.
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