Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History

by Lucy Parker

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History is a study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis. Lucy Parker investigates the tensions that emerged when increasingly ambitious claims about the powers of holy men came into conflict with undeniable evidence of their failures, and explores how holy men and their supporters responded to this. The work takes as its central figure Symeon Stylites...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019286517X
• ISBN13: 9780192865175
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"