Late Antique Historiography

Lives of the Eastern saints

Title(s):
  • Lives of the Eastern saints
  • ܟܬܒܐ ܕܬܫܥ̈ܢܬܐ ܕܥܠ ܕܘܒܪ̈ܐ ܕܛܘ̈ܒܢܐ ܡܕ̈ܢܚܝܐ
    (ktābā d-taš‘īātā d-‘al dūbārē d-ṭūbānē madnḥāyē, Book of the histories of the lives of the Eastern Saints)
Author:
Period covered:
Ca. 500-560
Language:
Syriac
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Biography (collective)
Remarks:
The work is a series of biographies of holy men from the East.
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Bibliography:
  • S. Ashbrook Harvey (1990) Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern Saints. Berkeley.
  • M. Debié (2015) L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et Islam (Late antique history and religion, 12). Leuven - Paris - Bristol: 538-543.