Object's details: A Few Remarks on the Ransom Paid for Releasing Captives in Selected Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts

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Title:
A Few Remarks on the Ransom Paid for Releasing Captives in Selected Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts
Creator:
Milewski, Ireneusz
Contributor:
Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Historyczny,Instytut Historii, Zakład Historii Starożytnej, ul. Wita Stwosza 55, 80-308 Gdańsk, Polska/Poland;
hisim@univ.gda.pl
Description:
The article analyzes certain early Byzantine hagiographic texts concerning various forms of brigandage (both maritime and land-based). Two such accounts are studied in detail, one by Gerontius of Jerusalem and another by Theodoret of Cyrus. The instances described unveil the weakness of Roman state structures at the borders of the state as well as in lands harassed by barbarian raids, including piracy. Despite certain flaws (mostly the lack of precision), the accounts under discussion constitute valuable and reliable sources of historical knowledge.;
This article was written with the financial support of the Polish National Science Centre (UMO-2015/17/B/HS3/00135).;
Publication of English-language versions of the volumes of the yearly Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe financed through contract no. 501/1/P-DUN/2017 from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education devoted to the promotion of scholarship.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
© Copyright by Authors, Łódź 2017; © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2017
Date:
2018.05.09;
2017
Type:
Article
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Relation:
Studia Ceranea;7
Subject:
late antiquity;
early Byzantium;
brigandage in antiquity;
money
Identifier:
2084-140X;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24646 ;
2449-8378;
10.18778/2084–140X.07.10
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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