{"product_id":"a-tale-of-two-saints-the-martyrdoms-and-miracles-of-saints-theodore-the-recruit-and-the-general-9781781381663","title":"A Tale of Two Saints: The Martyrdoms and Miracles","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHagiographical writing, including the Lives of saints  and martyrs and collections of their miracles, were one of the most popular,  perhaps the most popular form of literature accessible to ordinary people in  the medieval world. St. Theodore ‘the Recruit’ was one of the best-known of the  so-called ‘military saints’ or ‘soldier saints’, particularly in the medieval  eastern Roman, or Byzantine, and the eastern Christian world, where churches  dedicated to him were to be found in towns, cities and in the countryside. While  the cult of St. Theodore has been studied in the context of hagiographical  writing and from the perspective of his representation in medieval art, this is  the first translation into a modern language of any of the Greek texts  connected with St Theodore. Ranging in date from the fifth to the eleventh  century CE, five accounts of the martyrdom of the saint together with two sets  of miracles have been selected, texts that testify to the growth and to the  evolution of the martyrdoms and miracle collections associated with him. St  Theodore ‘the Recruit’ had a senior partner, St Theodore ‘the General’ who  first appears in the ninth century and reflects the tastes and demands of middle  Byzantine élite society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a detailed introduction that examines the structure  of the texts and their historical development, this volume also situates them  in the context of recent archaeological work at Roman Euchaïta, the centre of  the cult in Anatolia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSt Theodore ‘the Recruit’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt Theodore ‘the General’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt Theodore ‘the Recruit’ and Euchaïta\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The texts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContext: martyrdoms and miracles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe martyrdom accounts: date and development \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe miracle collections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Translations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText 1: \u003ci\u003eEncomium of Chrysippos, priest of Jerusalem, on the holy martyr Theodore, together with a partial account of his miracles\u003c\/i\u003e (BHG 1765c)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText 2: \u003ci\u003eThe passion of St Theodore the Recruit \u003c\/i\u003e(BHG 1761)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText 3: \u003ci\u003eThe life and upbringing of the holy martyr Theodore \u003c\/i\u003e(BHG 1765)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText 4: \u003ci\u003eThe life before the martyrdom and the upbringing and growing-up and the wondrous miracles of the holy and most glorious megalomartyr Theodore\u003c\/i\u003e (BHG 1764)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText 5: \u003ci\u003eThe martyrdom of the holy and glorious megalomartyr of Christ Theodore the general\u003c\/i\u003e (BHG 1752)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSources, collections of sources and reference works\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469968380247,"sku":"9781781381663","price":27.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781781381663.jpg?v=1744896968","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-tale-of-two-saints-the-martyrdoms-and-miracles-of-saints-theodore-the-recruit-and-the-general-9781781381663","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}