Digenis Akritas The Two-Blood Border Lord--The Grottaferrata Version

Name: Digenis Akritas The Two-Blood Border Lord--The Grottaferrata Version
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ISBN: 9780821408339

ISBN-10: 082140833X

ISBN-13: 9780821408339

Edition: 1986

Authors: Denison B. Hull

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Among the epic romances of post–Barbarian Europe, such as Roland and El Cid, Digenis Akritas has been the least known in the West—outside Greece. It is the story of a half–breed prince who guarded the eastern border of the Roman Empire of Byzantium on the Euphrates in the tenth century. His name and cognomen sum up the curious richness of the heritage: Roman by politics, Arab and Cappadocian by birth, Greek in language and orthodox by faith—Basil, the Two–Blood Border Lord.On an incursion into Byzantine territory, an Arab Emir captures a Christian lady. Her relatives, in raiding to rescue her, convert the Emir and his people to Christianity and bring them back to the Empire. Basil is born…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English