Böcker av Stephanos Efthymiadis

This text is a key source for the history and culture of the Byzantine world in the 8th and 9th centuries. The book provides an introduction, commentary and English translation of the text, places it in the framework of other patriarchal biographies and looks at Tarasios and Ignatios the Deacon.

Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian. This title features studies that cover a chronological range from late antiquity to the Paleologan era.