The Life of Leontios, Patriarch of Jerusalem: Text, Translation and Commentary

Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-90-04-09827-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

This book is a biography of St. Leontios, who lived in the 12th century, written by one of his disciples in the early years of the 13th century. Leontios was Abbot of the celebrated Monastery of St. John the Theologian in the Aegean island of Patmos and later became Greek-Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.
This study provides a critical edition of the text of The Life of Leontios, an English translation and an extensive commentary on various subjects such as history, language, theology, monasticism and prosopography.
The Life of Leontios is an important and interesting hagiographical work, not only because of the historical information it provides, but also because it is one of the few existing Byzantine historiographies of this period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsougarakis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Forward
Plates

Introduction 1

1. Leontios as a Twelfth-Century Saint 1
2. The Monastery of Patmos and Leontios 7
3. Leontios' Writings 9
4. The Composition of Leontios' Life 11
i. The Author 11
ii. Place and Date of Composition; Place of Delivery 13
iii. The Literary Form of the Life 18
5. Historical Information and Accuracy of the Life 23
6. The Manuscripts 25
7. Previous Editions - The Text 27
8. Chronology 29

Text and Translation 32
Commentary 161

Bibliography 214
Index of Greek Words 223
i. Index nominum 223
ii. Index graecitatis 224
Index to Biblical and Other Quotations 245
General Index 246

Über Autor(innen)

Dimitris Tsougarakis, D.Phil. (1985) in Byzantine History, University of Oxford, is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies of the Academy of Athens and teaches Byzantine History at the Ionian University (Corfu). He has published mainly on the Medieval history of Crete, including his Byzantine Crete (Athens 1988).