Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch

From Hagiography to History

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Publisher Description

A study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis, taking as its central figure Symeon Stylites the Younger (c.521-592), who, from his vantage point on a column on a mountain close to Antioch, witnessed a period of exceptional turbulence in the sixth century, including plague, earthquakes, and Persian invasion.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2022
June 23
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
3.7
MB

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