Germanos II, Patriarch of Constantinople (1223-1240) - Select Sermons

About the author

Michael Angold is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History, University of Edinburgh. His many previous publications include Eastern Christianity: The Cambridge History of Christianity V (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Nicholas Mesarites, His Life and Works (in translation) (Translated Texts for Byzantinists, Liverpool University Press, 2017).

Summary

The twenty-one sermons translated here were not, as was so often the case, exercises in belles-lettres but a sustained effort to bring about both social and moral reform as a precondition for the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Angold
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2024
• EAN: 9781802074598
• ISBN: 978-1-80207-459-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Translated Texts for Byzantinists
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works