Miracle Tales from Byzantium
Miracle Tales from Byzantium Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. Together, the collections offer an exceptional variety of miracles from the Byzantine…
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Miracle Tales from Byzantium
Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. Together, the collections offer an exceptional variety of miracles from the Byzantine era.First are the fifth-century Miracles of Saint Thekla. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English.
Her Miracles depict activities, at once extraordinary and ordinary, in a rural healing shrine at a time when Christianity was still supplanting traditional religion. Legendary female companion of the Apostle Paul, Thekla counted among the most revered martyrs of the early church. A half millennium later comes another anonymous text, the tenth-century Miracles of the Spring of the Virgin Mary.
This collection describes how the marvelous waters at this shrine outside Constantinople healed emperors, courtiers, and churchmen. Complementing the first two
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