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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1996 Softcover Good Minimal signs of wear. Corners and cover may show wear. May contain highlighting and or writing. May be missing dust jacket. May not include supplemental materials. May be a former library book.
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection 1996 Softcover Very good May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
ISBN10: 088402248X, ISBN13: 9780884022480, [publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection] Softcover Minimal signs of wear. Corners and cover may show wear. May contain highlighting and or writing. May be missing dust jacket. May not include supplemental materials. May be a former library book. [Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Date: 1996. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1996. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection ISBN 088402248X 9780884022480 [US]
ISBN10: 088402248X, ISBN13: 9780884022480, [publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection] Softcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.35 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]
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ISBN10: 088402248X, ISBN13: 9780884022480, [publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection] Softcover The ten holy women whose biographies are presented here represent a wide variety of Byzantine female saints: nuns who disguised themselves in male monastic garb; a repentant harlot who withdrew to the desert for forty-seven years of self-imposed isolation; a nun who escaped from Arab captivity to spend thirty-five years as a hermit on the abandoned island of Paros; a wonder-working abbess who slew a dragon; widows who found refuge in the ascetic life of the convent; married laywomen and a queen abused by their husbands.The careers of these holy women demonstrate some of the divergent paths to sanctification in Byzantium, including mortification of the body, unquestioning obedience to a superior, repentance, acts of charity, prophecy, and miracle-working. At the same time, the texts of the Lives reveal the Byzantine ambivalence toward women, reflecting a paradox of civilization that simultaneously denigrated women as daughters of Eve and elevated Mary as the Mother of God and the instrument of mans salvation.These vitae, ranging from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries, also supplement traditional narrative histories by providing information on such aspects of Byzantine civilization as the impact of Arab and Bulgarian raids, iconoclasm, the monastic routine in convents, everyday family life and household management, and a smallpox epidemic in Thessal ...
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