The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios - Couverture rigide

Efthymiadis, Stephanos

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0860786811 ISBN 13 : 9780860786818

Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998

Synopsis

The patriarch Tarasios holds a key position in the ending of the first period of Iconoclasm in Byzantium, with the seventh Oecumenical Council at Nicaea in 787. His Life forms an equally key source for the history and culture of the Byzantine world in the eighth and ninth centuries. This book provides a full introduction, a critical edition with English translation, and a detailed commentary and indexes for this important document. The introduction first places the text within the framework of other patriarchal biographies composed in the period c.850-950. Dr Efthymiadis then looks at Tarasios himself, as layman, patriarch, and saint, and provides a biographical sketch of the author of the Life, Ignatios the Deacon, together with a discussion of the date and reasons for the work's composition. In addition, this new text and translation makes more accessible a highly sophisticated example of Byzantine prose.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stephanos Efthymiadis is a professor at the Open University of Cyprus

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860786811
• ISBN 13: 9780860786818
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible