Название: Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200
Автор: Monica White
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521195640
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 269
Размер: 3,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
The rulers of the Byzantine Empire and its commonwealth were protected both by their own soldiers and by a heavenly army: the military saints. The transformation of Saints George, Demetrios, Theodore and others into the patrons of imperial armies was one of the defining developments of religious life under the Macedonian emperors.