Vitae et Miracula Sancti Christoduli Patmensis

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-3-7001-8671-7
Verlag: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Buch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Englisch, Band 56, 287 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 525 g

Reihe: Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae

The Greek dossier on St. Christodoulos, founder of the monastery of Patmos (1088), consists of four texts, three vitae and a narrative of a miracle, all written within roughly two centuries after the saint’s death by brethren of his monastic community. They are not only important for the reconstruction of the course of life of one of the most famous Byzantine saints, but they are also a unique source for the political and social history of Byzantium and the Eastern Mediterranean from the late 11th to the 13th century. Despite their great importance, these texts have remained almost unknown until today because they are contained in a 19th century edition that is hardly accessible any more and was intended exclusively for the monks and visitors of the John Prodromos Monastery.
The new critical edition, which is accompanied by a critical and exhaustive apparatus of sources as well as an index of personal names and of all passages of previous authors quoted or referred to in the texts, will be appreciated by historians and literary scholars alike. Historians will now have at their disposal an important source for the history of the Comnenian period and beyond, while scholars interested in Byzantine literature will have the opportunity to examine in depth four important and rather complex documents, which offer three different visions of the phenomenon of sanctity in Byzantium at the eve of the Fourth Crusade.
The introduction discusses several literary, historical and text-critical aspects of the dossier. Extensive summaries in English make these texts available to a wider audience for the first time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polemis, Ioannis D.

Antonopoulou, Theodora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Homiletik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Hagiographie

Über Autor(innen)

Polemis, Ioannis D.
is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Antonopoulou, Theodora
is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece