Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City by KRUEGER, Derek - 1996

University of California Press, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition. Bookplate on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked.

Berkeley - Los Angeles - London: University of California Press, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xvi, 196pp., (ii). Ex-library. No dust-jacket. Sticker to spine and remnant of a sticker to back cover. Just a hint of wear to exterior. Text clean. Binding sound. A good, clean, sound copy

University of California Press, January 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . This study of Leontius of Neapolis fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual and social environment in which the 'Life of Symeon the Fool' was created and opens a window onto the Christian religious imagination at the end of late antiquity. . . . . . TOC: 1.) Leontius of Neapolis and seventy-century Cyprus -- 2.) Leontius and his sources -- 3.) Symeon and late antique hagiography -- 4.) Holy fools and secret saints -- 5.) Diogenes in late antiquity -- 6.) Symeon and the cynics -- 7.) Symeon in Emesa, Jesus in Jerusalem -- 8.) Conclusion: Cynics, Christians, and holy fools -- * APPENDIX: The life of Symeon the fool by Leontius of Neapolis -- * BIBLIOGRAPHY -- * INDEX Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.