Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9780192688798
ISBN-13 : 0192688790
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Download or read book Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch written by Lucy Parker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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