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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 400
Utgivningsdatum: 2023-05-01
Förlag: Harvard University Press
Översättare: Stratis Papaioannou
Originalspråk: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Medarbetare: Papaioannou, Stratis (ed. & transl.)
Dimensioner: 206 x 140 x 30 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
ISBN: 9780674290792

Saints at the Limits

Seven Byzantine Popular Legends

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023-05-01

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A collection of medieval tales of Byzantine saints, including some rejected by the Church, translated into English for the first time. The legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated Christians during the Middle Agesas related cults, multiple retellings, and contemporary translations attest. Their protagonists span the entire spectrum of Byzantine society, including foreigners, soldiers, ascetics, lustful women, beggars, and the sons and daughters of rulers. They travel to exotic lands, perform outlandish miracles, suffer extraordinary violence, reject family ties, save cities, destroy absolute rulers, and discover the divine. Some saints, like Markos the Athenian, are forgotten nowadays; others, like Saint George the Great Martyr, still command a wide appeal. Each, however, negotiates the limits of Byzantine imagination: the borders that separate the powerful from the outcasts, the real from the imaginary, the human from the beyond human. These stories, edited in Greek and translated into English here for the first time, continue to resonate with readers seeking to understand universal human fears and desires in their Byzantine guise.

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What makes this volume truly invaluable is the translations. As knowledge of ancient languages diminishes, the translations make these texts more accessible than ever. It seems likely that all these texts will attract more scholarly interest over the next few yearsThis is a very valuable volume to have. -- Roger Pearse

Stratis Papaioannou is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the University of Crete.