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Product Description: Often simply called the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. This volume presents the Lives of Euthymios the Younger, Athanasios of Athos, Maximos the Hutburner, Niphon of Athos, and Philotheos...read more
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9780674088764 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 11, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Often simply called the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today.
Product Description: This issue includes âApostolic Geography: The Origins and Continuity of a Hagiographic Habitâ (Scott Fitzgerald Johnson); âJohn Lydus and His Contemporaries on Identities and Cultures of Sixth-Century Byzantiumâ (Sviatoslav Dmitriev); âGrotesque Bodies in Hagiographical Tales: The Monstrous and the Uncanny in Byzantine Collections of Miracle Storiesâ (Stavroula Constantinou); âByzantine Political Culture and Compilation Literature in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuriesâ (Catherine Holmes); âByzantine Mirrors: Self-Reflection in Medieval Greek Writingâ (Stratis Papaioannou); âTransformative Narratives and Shifting Identities in the Narthex of the Boiana Churchâ (Rossitza B...read more
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9780884023821 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, May 7, 2012, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This issue includes âApostolic Geography: The Origins and Continuity of a Hagiographic Habitâ (Scott Fitzgerald Johnson); âJohn Lydus and His Contemporaries on Identities and Cultures of Sixth-Century Byzantiumâ (Sviatoslav Dmitriev); âGrotesque Bodies in Hagiographical Tales: The Monstrous and the Uncanny in Byzantine Collections of Miracle Storiesâ (Stavroula Constantinou); âByzantine Political Culture and Compilation Literature in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuriesâ (Catherine Holmes); âByzantine Mirrors: Self-Reflection in Medieval Greek Writingâ (Stratis Papaioannou); âTransformative Narratives and Shifting Identities in the Narthex of the Boiana Churchâ (Rossitza B.
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9780884023579 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, April 15, 2011, cover price $125.00
Product Description: Despite increased interest over the last fifty years in childhood in Byzantium, the bibliography on this topic remains rather short and generalized. Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium presents detailed information about children's lives and provides a basis for further study...read more
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9780884023562 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, September 30, 2009, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Despite increased interest over the last fifty years in childhood in Byzantium, the bibliography on this topic remains rather short and generalized.
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9780884023982 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, March 10, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Despite increased interest over the last fifty years in childhood in Byzantium, the bibliography on this topic remains rather short and generalized.
Product Description: Volume 60 of this annual journal explores a range of Byzantine subjects: the classification of stamping objects (including six previously unpublished metal stamps); the date and purpose of the construction of Constantinople's church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus; the Coptic Church's literary construction of its identity in post-conquest Egypt; the evidence for the tenth-century revision of the so-called Chronicle of 811; an unusual development in the iconography of St...read more
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9780884023166 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, November 15, 2007, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Volume 60 of this annual journal explores a range of Byzantine subjects: the classification of stamping objects (including six previously unpublished metal stamps); the date and purpose of the construction of Constantinople's church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus; the Coptic Church's literary construction of its identity in post-conquest Egypt; the evidence for the tenth-century revision of the so-called Chronicle of 811; an unusual development in the iconography of St.
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9780884023128 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, March 15, 2007, cover price $125.00
Product Description: Leo's firsthand experience of the campaigns and courts of two Byzantine emperors provides vivid descriptions of sieges, pitched battles, and ambushes. His account of the conspiracy against Nikephoros II Phokas, murdered as he slept on the floor in front of his icons, is one of the most dramatic in Byzantine narrative histories...read more
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9780884023067 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, May 30, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Leo's firsthand experience of the campaigns and courts of two Byzantine emperors provides vivid descriptions of sieges, pitched battles, and ambushes.
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9780884023241 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, January 1, 2005, cover price $25.00
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9780884023074 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, October 20, 2005, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: v.
Product Description: The annual journal Dumbarton Oaks Papers was founded in 1941 for the publication of articles relating to late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine civilization in the fields of art and architecture, history, archeology, literature, theology, law, and the auxiliary disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780884022992 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, April 1, 2004, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The annual journal Dumbarton Oaks Papers was founded in 1941 for the publication of articles relating to late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine civilization in the fields of art and architecture, history, archeology, literature, theology, law, and the auxiliary disciplines.
Product Description: The title chosen for this volume of collected studies is deliberately ambiguous. Many of the selected articles do indeed focus on the religious life of Byzantine women, particularly within the monastic milieu, but others treat the theme of women's lives more broadly, and yet others examine the religious life of men, often in comparison with that of nuns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780860788737 | Variorum, October 1, 2001, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: The title chosen for this volume of collected studies is deliberately ambiguous.
These ten holy women, whose vitae range from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, represent a wide variety of Byzantine female saints. From nuns disguised as monks to desert harlots, these holy women exemplify some of the divergent paths to sanctification in Byzantium. These vitae are also notable for their details of Byzantine life, providing information on family life and household management, monastic routines, and even a smallpox epidemic. Life of St. Mary/Marinos Life of St. Matrona of Perge Life of St. Mary of Egypt Life of St. Theoktiste of Lesbos Life of St. Elisabeth the Wonderworker Life of St. Athanasia of Aegina Life of St. Theodora of Thessalonike Life of St. Mary the Younger Life of St. Thomaïs of Lesbos Life of St. Theodora of Arta
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9780884022411 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, July 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: These ten holy women, whose vitae range from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, represent a wide variety of Byzantine female saints.
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9780884022480 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, August 1, 1996, cover price $18.50
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