Product Description: This short reader includes selections from Stouck's longer volume, Medieval Saints: A Reader, along with new material. It is designed to briefly introduce students to many of the most famous and representative saints of the age, and can be used to supplement…
"This volume contains the Syriac Life of Mar Pinḥas, a purported martyr under the Sasanian Empire. The Life describes Pinḥas's martyrdom while also accounting for his relics. The Syriac text was first published in 1894 by Paul Bedjan, and is provided here with an English transla…
"This volume contains the Syriac Life of Mar Pinḥas, a purported martyr under the Sasanian Empire. The Life describes Pinḥas's martyrdom while also accounting for his relics. The Syriac text was first published in 1894 by Paul Bedjan, and is provided here with an English transla…
An investigation into two important Saints Lives provides a window into the Anglo-Saxon perception of the non-human world.
'The Early Lives of St Dunstan' contains new editions, with translation and extensive commentary, of the two earliest 'lives' of St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (960-88) and one of the principal figures of the tenth-century English church.
