TY - BOOK ID - 46308132 TI - Saints of ninth- and tenth-century Greece AU - Kaldellis, Anthony AU - Polemēs, Iōannēs D. PY - 2019 VL - 54 SN - 9780674237360 0674237366 PB - Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press, DB - UniCat KW - Christian hagiography KW - Christian hagiography. KW - Christian literature, Byzantine KW - Christian literature, Byzantine. KW - Christian saints KW - Christian saints. KW - Saints KW - Saints. KW - History and criticism. KW - Greece. KW - History and criticism KW - Byzantine literature KW - Hagiography, Christian KW - Hagiography KW - Persons KW - Canonization KW - Christian saints - Greece - Biography - Early works to 1800 KW - Saints - Greece - Biography - Early works to 1800 KW - Christian hagiography - History and criticism KW - Christian literature, Byzantine - History and criticism KW - Nicolaus iun. m. Bunenis (maii 9) KW - Athanasius ep. Methonensis in Peloponneso saec. IX KW - Petrus ep. Argivorum KW - Theocletus ep. Lacedaem. KW - Theodorus asceta in Cythera insula (maii 12) KW - Arsenius ep. Corcyrae UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46308132 AB - "Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history--when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar, Slavic, and Arab attacks and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. The bishops of the region provided much-needed leadership and institutional stability, while ascetics established hermitages and faced invaders. The Lives gathered here include accounts of Peter of Argos, which offers insight into episcopal authority in medieval Greece, and Theodore of Kythera, an important source for the history of piracy in the Aegean Sea.This volume, which illustrates the literary variety of saints' Lives, presents Byzantine Greek texts written by locals in the provinces and translated here into English for the first time.".-- ER -