The Life of Andrew the Fool is a Byzantine hagiography text concerning Andrew of Constantinople.[1] The text was very popular during the Byzantine era with thirty manuscripts dated between the tenth to the sixteenth century AD, and in the post-Byzantine period, eighty-two Greek copies between the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.[2]

Citations

  1. ↑ Krueger 1996, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Ivanov & Franklin 2006, p. 156.

Bibliography

  • Ivanov, Sergey A.; Franklin, Simon (2006). Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199272518.
  • Krueger, Derek (1996). Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520089112.
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