La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le Diacre: Introduction, édition et Traduction

by Stephen* and Marie-France Auzépy

The Life of Stephen the Younger is one of the rare sources for Byzantium in the 'Dark Ages' and one of the key witnesses to the history of Iconoclasm. This book presents a new edition of the text, together with a French translation and commentary, and an important introduction. Stephen was a hermit, killed in 765 at the order of the emperor Constantine V; his Life was written in 809, some forty years after the 7th Ecumenical Council, Nicaea II, at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860786374
• ISBN13: 9780860786375
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"