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Marci Monachi Opera ascetica : florilegivm et sermones tres.
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ISBN: 9782503531960 2503531962 Year: 2009 Volume: 72 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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"This volume contains writings of Mark the Monk, an ascetic writer of the mid-thirteenth century, none of which have hitherto been edited. Mark, a prolific writer, was the spiritual advisor of Irene, sister of Michael VIII Palaiologos (1224-1282). After her husband's death (in the 1250s) she entered a convent and took the monastic name of Eulogia. Mark wrote ever bigger treatises for her edification: first a simple "Logos", then a concise florilegium, and in the end a huge one citing entire books. The first two of these are critically edited here. Furthermore, the edition contains another sermon similar to the Logos for Irene, but written for a layman. Interestingly, Mark acknowledges very few difference between the lifestyles of monastics and the laity. A small typikon for nuns completes the edition. The few facts about Mark's life known to us stem from a letter to Irene and a general epilogue in the main manuscript, both of which are also edited in this volume. The texts here presented shed light on the ascetic life of the thirteenth century and teach us more about the Palaeologians' relationship to the Church. The main interest of these texts lies in the history of Hesychasm and monasticism, but they also furnish information on the transmission of Patristic texts, of which they often contain interesting variae lectiones."--Publisher's website.


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Nicephori Blemmydae "De virtute et ascesi" Iosephi Racendytae "De virtute"
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ISBN: 9782503544120 2503544126 Year: 2016 Volume: 80 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols Publishers

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Nicephorus Blemmydes was born as the second son of a doctor in Constantinople at the very end of the 12th century. In December 1224 he was ordained lector by patriarch Germanus II, which marked the beginning of a successful career in the Church, culminating in the foundation of an own monastery near Ephesus. Teaching, both on theological and secular topics, played a major part in his life as well. Among his pupils were George Acropolites and the future emperor Theodore II Lascaris. As to instruct his fellow monks in his monastery, Blemmydes wrote, among other things, four brief treatises, entitled 'De fide', 'De virtute et ascesi', 'De anima' and 'De corpore', each of which might have originally been part of his 'Typikon', yet has been circulating also independently. Up to now, only the 'De anima' has been decently edited.


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Plato in the third sophistic
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ISBN: 9781614510321 1614510326 1614510393 1614519838 9781614510390 Year: 2014 Volume: 50 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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Plato in the Third Sophistic examines the influence and impact of Plato and Platonism in the era of Byzantine and Christian rhetoric. The volume brings together specially commissioned articles from leading scholars of late antique philosophy and literature. Their examinations show that Plato is the single most important and influential literary figure used to frame the literature of this time. Plato in the Third Sophistic will help scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines to better understand the development of Christian literature in this era as an essential link in the history of Platonism as well as that of Christianity.


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The Ashgate research companion to Byzantine hagiography.
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ISBN: 9781409409519 9780754650331 9781409407249 1409407241 9781409409526 9781472404152 0754650332 1409409511 9781315612799 9781317043942 9781317043959 Year: 2011 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate

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Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucial insight to the development of religious thought and practice, social and literary life, and the history of the empire. It emerged in the fourth century with the pioneering Life of St Antony and continued to evolve until the end of the empire in the fifteenth century, and beyond. The appeal and dynamics of this genre radiated beyond the confines of Byzantium, and it was practised also in many Oriental and Slavic languages within the orbit of the broader Byzantine world. This Companion is the work of an international team of specialists and represents the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. It consists of two volumes and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, Medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of the narrative. This first volume covers the authors and texts of the four distinctive periods during which Greek Byzantine hagiography developed, as well as the hagiography produced in Oriental and Slavic languages and in geographical milieux around the periphery of the empire, from Italy to Armenia. Volume II addresses questions of genres and the social and other contexts of Byzantine hagiography.


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Dreaming in Byzantium and beyond
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ISBN: 9781409400554 9781472433053 9781472433060 147243305X 1409400557 1317148150 1317148142 9781315578064 9781317148135 9781317148142 1315578069 1472433068 9781317148159 Year: 2014 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK Burlington, VT

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This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. The remarkable number of dream narratives in Byzantine hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance attests to the cardinal function of dreams as vehicles of meaning in politics, religion and literature. The essays provide a broad variety of perspectives, exploring gender, eroticism, Greco-Roman and Islamic influences, psychoanalysis and anthropol

The Latin dossier of Anastasius the Persian : hagiographic translations and transformations.
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ISBN: 0888441479 9780888441478 Year: 2004 Volume: 147 Publisher: Toronto Pontifical institute of mediaeval studies

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