Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch - Parker, Lucy
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A study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis, taking as its central figure Symeon Stylites the Younger (c.521-592), who, from his vantage point on a column on a mountain close to Antioch, witnessed a period of exceptional turbulence in the sixth century, including plague, earthquakes, and Persian invasion.

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A study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis, taking as its central figure Symeon Stylites the Younger (c.521-592), who, from his vantage point on a column on a mountain close to Antioch, witnessed a period of exceptional turbulence in the sixth century, including plague, earthquakes, and Persian invasion.
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Autorenporträt
Lucy Parker completed her DPhil on Symeon Stylites the Younger at the University of Oxford in 2016. Since then she has worked as a Research Associate specialising in Syriac on the European Research Council-funded project 'Stories of Survival: Recovering the Connected Histories of Eastern Christianity in the Early Modern World' (2016-2018), as a Departmental Lecturer in Late Antique and Early Medieval History at Worcester College, Oxford (2018-2019), and, most recently, as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Oxford working on monasteries and hagiographies in the early Islamic period (2019-).