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Document Details : Title: The Unedited Life of St John Chrysostom by Nicetas David the Paphlagonian Subtitle: An Introduction Author(s): ANTONOPOULOU, Theodora Journal: Byzantion Volume: 86 Date: 2016 Pages: 1-51 DOI: 10.2143/BYZ.86.0.3180819 Abstract : The present study offers a detailed introduction to the unedited Life of St John Chrysostom by Nicetas David the Paphlagonian, the editio princeps of which is forthcoming. The following issues are dealt with: the date and structure of the work, its main sources, namely George of Alexandria and the Appendix to a recension of Theodore of Trimithous’ Life of Chrysostom, its divergences from George’s text, the identification of some secondary sources, the relationship of the Life to other tenth-century Chrysostomic Lives, the author’s views on monastic habit and tonsure, and the relationship of the Life with the same author’s Encomium of Chrysostom. |
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