Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City Volume 25

by Derek Krueger

This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings alive one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual, and social environment in which the Life was created and opens a window onto the Christian religious imagination at the end of Late Antiquity. He explores the concept of holy folly by relating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520302117
• ISBN13: 9780520302112
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"