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The Life of St Pankratios of Taormina describes the mission and martyrdom of St Pankratios, a disciple of the Apostle Peter sent to evangelize Taormina as its first bishop, and purports to have been written by St Pankratios’ successor, Euagrios. The text was composed in the early eighth century and is of Sicilian provenance.
The Life contributes to our understanding of the Byzantine attitude to the past and of the novelistic approach to hagiography. It touches on the topography of Sicily and Calabria, ecclesiastical arrangements in Sicily, civil and military administration, the Sicilian language question, church decoration, liturgical rites, book production, and the attitude to religious images.
The Life contributes to our understanding of the Byzantine attitude to the past and of the novelistic approach to hagiography. It touches on the topography of Sicily and Calabria, ecclesiastical arrangements in Sicily, civil and military administration, the Sicilian language question, church decoration, liturgical rites, book production, and the attitude to religious images.
Price: $310.00
Pages: 526
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Byzantina Australiensia
Publication Date:
16 August 2018
ISBN: 9789004366213
Format: Hardcover
After junior positions at Melbourne, Harvard and Belfast, Cynthia Stallman-Pacitti (D.Phil, Oxford 1986) lectured in Classics at the University of Melbourne until her death in 1992. Her study of Cyril of Scythopolis’ Lives was published in 1991.
John Burke is a Senior Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has published on Byzantine literature and palaeography, and has edited several volumes in the Byzantina Australiensia series.
John Burke is a Senior Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has published on Byzantine literature and palaeography, and has edited several volumes in the Byzantina Australiensia series.