Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2219
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Talbot , Alice-Mary.
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  • Title: The Posthumous Miracles of St. Photeine [identified by the Byzantines as the Samaritan woman who spoke with Jesus; her cult in Constantinople was active and known for healing eye diseases and blindness; article includes an English translation of BHG 1541m "The Discovery of the Relics of Holy Great Martyr Photeine and a Partial Account of Her Miracles"].
  • Source: Analecta Bollandiana 112, 40180 ( 1994): Pages 85 - 104. Reprinted in Women and Religious Life in Byzantium. By Alice-Mary Talbot. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Ashgate, 2001. Article 8
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Journal Article;Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Blindness Byzantium Greek Literature Hagiography Healers and Healing Literature- Prose Miracles Photeine, Saint Relics Translation Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean
  • Century: 11-12
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  • Author's Affiliation: Center for Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks
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  • Year of Publication: 1994.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00032468