Miracle Tales From Byzantium

Informationen zum Autor Alice-Mary Talbot is Director of Byzantine Studies Emerita, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is Dumbarton Oaks Teaching Fellow in Postclassical and Byzantine Greek in the Classics Department at Georgetown University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Con la collaborazione di: Dr. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Traduzione), Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Traduzione), Alice-Mary Talbot (Traduzione), Talbot Alice-Mary (Traduzione)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.05.2012
• EAN: 9780674059030
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05903-0
• Pagine: 480
• Serie: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Librar; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Librar
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Medioevo; Cultural Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, RELIGION / Christianity / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Christianity, History of Religion, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Church history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Byzantine Empire