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Jane
Baun.
Tales
from Another Byzantium: Celestial Journey and Local Community in the
Medieval Greek Apocrypha.
Cambridge
U.P., due September 2005.
ISBN-10:
0521823951 | ISBN-13: 9780521823951.
Hardback.
Publisher's
recommended price £45.00
The rich corpus of medieval
Greek apocryphal religious literature has been little used by
historians. This book is the first full-length study of two medieval
Greek visionary journeys to heaven and hell: the Apocalypse of the
Theotokos and the Apocalypse of Anastasia. Composed anonymously
sometime between the ninth and eleventh centuries, both enjoyed a
lively circulation in the Byzantine Empire and far beyond. Functioning
on the fringes of the official church, they transmit both traditional
and novel theological ideas, and shed new light on the reception of
church doctrine and imperial governance by ordinary Byzantine
Christians. Though their heroines tour the Other World, their true
concern is this world, and the reinforcement of social, moral, and
ritual norms within local communities. Providing original translations
of both texts, the book probes the tales as manifestations of non-elite
religious and moral culture in the medieval Orthodox Church.
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