Psellos and the Patriarchs: Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos

by Michael Psellus

Book Overview

Psellos and the Patriarchs: Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos contains translations of the funeral orations written by Michael Psellos, the leading Byzantine intellectual of the eleventh century, for the three ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople whom he knew best: Michael Keroullarios (1043-1058), Konstantinos Leichoudes (1059-1063), and Ioannes Xiphilinos (1064-1075). The orations are significant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268175144
• ISBN13: 9780268175146
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"