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Miracle tales from Byzantium / translated by Alice-Mary Talbot and Scott Fitzgerald Johnson.
- Title
- Miracle tales from Byzantium / translated by Alice-Mary Talbot and Scott Fitzgerald Johnson.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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- Description
- xxiv, 448 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. They deepen our understanding of attitudes toward miracles and display the remarkable range of registers in which Greek could be written during the Byzantine period." -- Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; DOML 12
- Uniform Title
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 12.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bilingual books.
- Note
- "This volume presents three collections of miracle tales from three very different eras of the Byzantine Empire: the late antique, the middle Byzantine, and the late Byzantine"--Introduction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-442) and index.
- Language (note)
- Greek, with English translation on opposite pages; introduction in English.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Miracles of Saint Thekla / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson -- Appendix: Two variant endings to the Thekla legend -- Anonymous miracles of the Pege / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Miracles of Gregory Palamas by Philotheos Kokkinos / Alice-Mary Talbot.
- ISBN
- 9780674059030 (alk. paper)
- 0674059034 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011036262
- OCLC
- 754105547
- SCSB-12559757
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library