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Michael Whitby, Richard Price - Theodore of Sykeon, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Theodore of Sykeon

The Life by George and Encomium by Nicephorus the Treasurer

Av Michael Whitby, Richard Price

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Theodore of Sykeon is one of the archetypal holy men of the late Roman world, a person whose intense ascetic regime earned him fame in the villages and cities of his Galatian homeland, where he was called upon to work a variety of miracles – cures for various ailments, prevention of natural disasters, and the exorcism of unclean spirits both from individuals and groups. His reputation for holiness led to appointment as bishop of Anastasiopolis, a responsibility he did not enjoy since its administrative commitments compromised his ascetic regime and conflicted with his sense of social justice. The location of his village on the main highway across Anatolia ensured that his fame was soon translated into contacts with travelling dignitaries, and this brought him to the attention of successive emperors and patriarchs of Constantinople. He made three trips to the Holy Land and visited the capital three times, where he met the emperors Maurice, Phocas, and Heraclius as well as the patriarchs Cyriacus, Thomas, and Sergius. Theodore’s disciple George, a future leader of the Sykeon monasteries, began composing this Life shortly after Theodore’s death in 613. Soon thereafter, his body was removed to Constantinople as a talisman, an event celebrated by Nicholas the Treasurer.
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Michael Whitby is Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham. His many publications include The Cambridge Ancient History XIV, Late Antiquity, Empire and Successors A.D. 425-600 (Cambridge University Press 2000) co-edited with Averil Cameron and Bryan Ward-Perkins; with Jeff Childers and Claudia Rapp, Mark the Deacon: The Life of Porphyry of Gaza (Translated Texts for Historians 89, LUP 2025); with David Gwynn and Richard Price, Documents of the Early ‘Arian’ Controversy and the Council of Nicaea (Translated Texts for Historians 91, LUP 2025) and Monastic Saints of Constantinople, 350–500 The Lives of Isaac, Hypatius, Marcellus, Domnica, Auxentius, and John the Calybite (Translated Texts for Historians 92, LUP 2026).Richard Price is Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, Heythrop College and Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London. His many previous publications include The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 (with P. Booth & C. Cubitt, Liverpool 2014), The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (Liverpool 2018), The Council of Ephesus of 431 (with T. Graumann, Liverpool 2020), Canons of the Quinisext Council (691/2) (Liverpool 2020) and The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 (with Federico Montinaro, Liverpool 2022).

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'The volume must be recognized as a major scholarly achievement. It revives and re-contextualizes a key set of Byzantine hagiographical texts with intellectual rigor and literary sensitivity. The collaboration between Whitby and Price exemplifies best practices in translation and commentary, combining textual fidelity with historical insight. The resulting work is more than a useful resource; it is a model for how critical editions of hagiographical texts can serve both academic research and pedagogy. As such, Theodore of Sykeon: The “Life” by George and the “Encomium” by Nicephorus deserves a wide readership and will undoubtedly become a standard reference in its field.' Spyridon P. Panagopoulos, Vigiliae Christianae

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