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Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History (Oxford Studies in Byzantium)

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Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History is a study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis. Lucy Parker investigates the tensions that emerged when increasingly ambitious claims about the powers of holy men came into conflict with undeniable evidence of their failures, and explores how holy men and their supporters responded to this. The work takes as its central figure Symeon Stylites the Younger (c.521-592), who, from his vantage point on a column on a mountain close to Antioch, witnessed a period of exceptional turbulence in the local area, which, in the sixth century, experienced plague, earthquakes, and Persian invasion. Through an examination of Symeon's own writings, as well as his hagiographic biography, it reveals that the stylite was a divisive figure who played upon social tensions and upon culturally sensitive areas such as paganism to carve out a role for himself as prophet and spiritual authority in the face of considerable opposition. It sets Symeon's life and cult in the context of Antioch and eastern Roman society, offering a new perspective on the state of the empire in the period before the rise of Islam. It argues that hagiography is an exceptionally rich source for the historian, offering insights into debates and tensions which reached to the heart of Christianity.
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  1. ISBN-10
    019286517X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0192865175
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  4. Publication date
    October 7, 2022
  5. Part of series
    Oxford Studies in Byzantium
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    9.33 x 0.82 x 6.43 inches
  8. Print length
    288 pages
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"Throughout this book, Parker's analysis of fascinating texts is supported by her concise and insightful overviews of existing scholarship, as well as her knowledge of the region's archaeology. One of the book's greatest strengths is its balance between the specific and the general: Symeon the Younger's monastery was grounded in its own particular disputes and personalities, while also being embedded in the broader political, socio-economic and religious developments of the period." -- Jaclyn Maxwell, Journal of Hellenic Studies

"Lucy Parker deals with difficult and involved concepts in clear, comprehensible prose, free of jargon. She does not lean on theories, banging square pegs into round holes, or on potentially inappropriate approaches borrowed from other disciplines. She starts with the textual evidence and brings forward more evidence to explain its peculiarities and salient features. Parker has written a novel book that comprehensively surveys the topic and its problems and blazes new trails toward understanding it. But she has also written a sturdy book that will stand the test of time and remain the principal work on Symeon Stylites the Younger for the foreseeable future." -- Benjamin Garstad, Medieval Review

About the Author

Lucy Parker, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford

Lucy Parker completed her DPhil on Symeon Stylites the Younger at the University of Oxford in 2016. Since then she has worked as a Research Associate specialising in Syriac on the European Research Council-funded project 'Stories of Survival: Recovering the Connected Histories of Eastern Christianity in the Early Modern World' (2016-2018), as a Departmental Lecturer in Late Antique and Early Medieval History at Worcester College, Oxford (2018-2019), and, most recently, as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Oxford working on monasteries and hagiographies in the early Islamic period (2019-).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (October 7, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019286517X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192865175
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.26 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.33 x 0.82 x 6.43 inches

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