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Record Number:
10888
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Wortley , John.
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Title:
Documents: De Latrone Converso: The Tale of the Converted Robber (BHG 1450kb W861) [a robber chief infiltrates a women's monastery where he is welcomed as a holy man; when he inadvertently cures a nun, he repents and becomes a monk].
Source:
Byzantion 66, 1 ( 1996): Pages 219 - 243. Reprinted in Studies on the Cult of Relics in Byzantium up to 1204. By John Wortley. Ashgate Variorum, 2009. Article X.
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Article Type:
Edition of Text;Journal Article;Translation
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Byzantium
Crime and Criminals
De Latrone Converso, Byzantine Story
Greek Literature
Healers and Healing
Literature- Prose
Miracles 'Monasticism
Nuns
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Eastern Mediterranean
Century:
7
Primary Evidence:
Manuscript; The tale survives in two versions, an older short form (#1 below) and a later version that is almost twice as long (#2 below). 1) Cod. Paris. graec. 1598 (AD 1071-2), ff. 196v-198. Cod. Athen. B.N. 513 (saec. xiii), ff. 239-240. Cod. Paris. graec. 1313 (s
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Year of Publication:
1996.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
03782506