The Life of Saint Peter of Atroa

Sabas, Ioannis Polemis, Athanasios Markopoulos , Richard P. H. Greenfield

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Harvard University Press
01 October 2024

Biography: religious & spiritual; Christianity; Christian leaders & leadership; Christian communities & monasticism

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

An authoritative new Greek edition and English translation of the life of a notable Byzantine monastic leader.

Saint Peter of Atroa (773–837 CE) was a Byzantine monastic leader, remembered primarily as cofounder and abbot of the influential monastery of Saint Zachariah at Atroa, below the holy mountain of Olympos in Bithynia. Peter sought to live in tranquility and solitude, traveling to the various monasteries he established in northwestern Asia Minor and occasionally joining other notable monastic figures. However, his resistance to the Iconoclast policies of imperial regimes in Constantinople during the first half of the ninth century led to his persecution and the temporary dispersal of his communities. Although he was evidently regarded with suspicion by some of his contemporaries, he gained a reputation as a miracle worker and his tomb became the site of a healing cult in the years after his death.

The Life of Saint Peter of Atroa was written by the saint's disciple Sabas, also the biographer for Peter's contemporary and friend Saint Ioannikios, and it survives in two manuscript versions. This volume represents an entirely new edition of the Greek text, establishing the version previously regarded as secondary as the more important of the two, and making the Life accessible to English readers for the first time.

By: Sabas
With: Richard P. H. Greenfield
Edited and translated by: Ioannis Polemis, Athanasios Markopoulos
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 442g
ISBN: 9780674295643
ISBN 10: 0674295641
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ioannis Polemis is Professor of Byzantine Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Athanasios Markopoulos is Emeritus Professor of Byzantine Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Richard P. H. Greenfield is Professor of Byzantine History at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.