1st Edition

The Life of St. Stephen the Younger A Translation, with Notes and Historical Commentary

174 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The translation of The Life of St. Stephen the Younger details the unique birth narrative, monastic life, and martyrdom of an Eastern Christian monk named “Stephen,” killed by a blow to the head on the way to his formal execution in approximately 765 AD. Composed in the early ninth century, this entertaining and interesting life and death narrative has resulted in Stephen the Younger being... Read more
1 Introduction
2 Translator’s Note
3 Stephen Deacon’s Life of Stephen the Younger
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Scriptural References

Biography

Tyler T. Travillian is Chair of the Foreign Languages and the Literature departments at Northwest Classical Academy. He is the author of Pliny the Elder: Natural History VII as well as articles on the emperor Hadrian, the odes of Horace, and Seneca the Younger’s Phaedra.

Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen is Professor of Early and Medieval Christian History at Pacific Lutheran University (USA). She is the author of John Moschos’ Spiritual Meadow: Authority and Autonomy at the End of the Antique World, and articles on Byzantine healing shrines, productive suffering, and charity.