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A Tale of Two Saints - The Martyrdoms and Miracles of Saints Theodore 'the Recruit' and 'the General' (Hardcover)
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A Tale of Two Saints - The Martyrdoms and Miracles of Saints Theodore 'the Recruit' and 'the General' (Hardcover)
Series: Translated Texts for Byzantinists, 2
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Hagiographical writing, including the Lives of saints and martyrs
and collections of their miracles, were one of the most popular,
perhaps the most popular form of literature accessible to ordinary
people in the medieval world. St. Theodore 'the Recruit' was one of
the best-known of the so-called 'military saints' or 'soldier
saints', particularly in the medieval eastern Roman, or Byzantine,
and the eastern Christian world, where churches dedicated to him
were to be found in towns, cities and in the countryside. While the
cult of St. Theodore has been studied in the context of
hagiographical writing and from the perspective of his
representation in medieval art, this is the first translation into
a modern language of any of the Greek texts connected with St
Theodore. Ranging in date from the fifth to the eleventh century
CE, five accounts of the martyrdom of the saint together with two
sets of miracles have been selected, texts that testify to the
growth and to the evolution of the martyrdoms and miracle
collections associated with him. St Theodore 'the Recruit' had a
senior partner, St Theodore 'the General' who first appears in the
ninth century and reflects the tastes and demands of middle
Byzantine elite society. With a detailed introduction that examines
the structure of the texts and their historical development, this
volume also situates them in the context of recent archaeological
work at Roman Euchaita, the centre of the cult in Anatolia.
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