OMS is delighted to announce a new publication by Byzantine scholar Dr Lucy Parker (Christ Church):
Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History
Oxford Studies in Byzantium
- Offers the first detailed modern study of the cult of Symeon Stylites the Younger
- Tackles barely-known texts including Symeon’s sermons and the Life of Martha, his mother
- Offers a new perspective on the crises of the sixth-century Roman empire
- Explores new ways of writing history on the basis of hagiography, a problematic body of source material
- Rethinks the position of the holy man in late antiquity