SIMEON STYLITES, SAINT

stīlīˈtēz [Gr.,= of a pillar], d. 459?, Syrian hermit. He lived for more than 35 years on a small platform on top of a high pillar. He had many imitators (called stylites) and gained the reverence of the whole Christian world. Feast: Jan. 5.

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books on: Simeon Stylites Saint  - 113 results

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The Lady as Saint: A Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century
Book by Brigitte Cazelles; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991
Subjects: Christian Women Saints--Romances, French Poetry--To 1500--Translations Into English
...274 - 88 , 317 Pelagia Saint , 41 n.54 Peter Waldo, 26 Primes Saint , 57 Romance of the Rose...47, 59 n.1, 71- 74 Saints, exemplary value of, 8...thaumaturgic power of, 25 , 81 Simeon Stylites Saint . 41 n.52 Song of Roland...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
Book by David Hugh Farmer; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Christian Saints--Biography--Dictionaries, Christian Saints--Great Britain--Biography--Dictionaries, Christian Saints--Ireland--Biography--Dictionaries
...and later by another Simeon who lived to the west...admirable charity. Simeon was a champion of the...Das Leben des heiligen Simeon Stylites 1908 , for which see P. Peeters. S. Symeon Stylite et ses premiers biographes...in H. Delehaye, Les Saints Stylites 1923 , resumed...
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Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity
Book by James Eli Adams; Cornell University Press, 1995
Subjects: Aestheticism (Literature), Dandies In Literature, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Male Authors--History And Criticism, Gender Identity In Literature, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--19th Century, Masculinity In Literature, Men In Literature, Patriarchy In Literature, Sex Role In Literature
...William, 161 n, 178 Silverman, Kaja, 11 , 142 n Simeon Stylites, Saint, as icon of asceticism, 37 , 42 , 48 , 51 , 107...59 , 104 , 116 -21, 123 -25, 131 , 140 " St. Simeon Stylites ," 37 - 38 , 42 - 44 , 52 - 53 Tennyson, G. B...
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Forerunners of Saint Francis and Other Studies
Book by Ellen Scott Davison, Gertrude R. B. Richards; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927
Subjects: Church History--Middle Ages, France--Social Life And Customs, Monasticism And Religious Orders--Middle Ages
...said to have communicated with Saint Simeon Stylites through Syrian merchants. After...gathered at the shrine of some saint, and remaining there awaiting...Provins was opened on the Feast of Saint Quiriace, the Tuesday before Ascension...
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The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity
Book by Georgia Frank; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Christian Pilgrims And Pilgrimages--History, Monasticism And Religious Orders--Egypt--History, Palladius--Bishop Of Aspuna--D. Ca. 430--Lausiac History
...Translated in Robert Doran, The Lives of Simeon Stylites. CS 112. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1992. Vita...Elizabeth A. Dawes and N. Baynes, Three Byzantine Saints. Crestwood, N. Y.: Saint Vladmirs Seminary Press, 1977. SECONDARY WORKS...
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journal articles on: Simeon Stylites Saint  - 13 results

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The Becoming Character of Tennyson's Simeon Stylites
Journal article by Devon Fisher; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 48, 2010
Subjects: Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Simeon Stylites, Saint--Portrayals, St. Simeon Stylites (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron--Criticism and interpretation
...manifestations of the saints life as a...individuality of the saint ceases to...compose "St. Simeon Stylites" in 1833...of Simeon Stylites instead with...of other saints who, as...these words, Simeon renders the...Simeon as a saint. Although...conception of the saint rather than...facts of the saints life that...of "St. Simeon Stylites" "can be...
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Books Received
Journal article; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 129, 2009
...illus. $74.95. Distrib. by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Ct. LENT, FREDERICK, tr. The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites: A Translation of the Syriac Text in Bedjans Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum. Christian Roman Empire Series, vol...
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Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century
Journal article by Ian Duncan; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 50, 2010
Subjects: Criticism--Analysis, Criticism--Forecasts and trends, English literature--Analysis, English literature--Criticism and interpretation, Literary criticism--Analysis, Literary criticism--Forecasts and trends
...made the dramatic monologue his preferred form for critical engagement with contemporary cultural issues. In "Saint Simeon Stylites," "Ulysses," "Tithonus," and "Tiresias" the poet reclaims the oratorical trope of "rapture," fusing...
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Recent Studies in the English Renaissance
Journal article by Anne Ferry; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 33, 1993
Subjects: Literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Renaissance--Bibliography
...which looks as far forward as the 1970s, the net is made so wide or loose that it can even include Tennysons "Saint Simeon Stylites," which seems stretching the term liturgical beyond any usefulness. Harold Skulskys Language Recreated: Seventeenth...
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Tennyson
Journal article by Hughe Lind K.; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 47, 2009
Subjects: Criticism--Analysis, Literary criticism--Analysis, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron--Criticism and interpretation, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron--Works
...death: "St. Simeon Stylites," "Ulysses," "Tithon...relative to "St. Simeon Stylites" and his desperation...compelling for "St. Simeon Stylites" and "Ulysses...Edward Irving, cites the Saint-Simonians as most relevant to "St. Simeon Stylites." Simeons dismissal...
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magazine articles on: Simeon Stylites Saint  - 3 results

 
 
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Antiquities Diplomacy
Magazine article by Jonathan Aitken; The American Spectator, Vol. 42, February 2009
Subjects: Christianity, Computer science, Mosques & temples
...of Maaloula; the monastery of Saint Simeon Stylites near Aleppo; and Straight Street...a most eccentric saint. He was Simeon of Stylites, a monk so devoted...upward at this bizarre hermit. When Simeon died in 459 AD he was the most...
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No 4165: We Asked You to Send in Verses Glorifying Asceticism
Magazine article by Leonora Casement; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, February 28, 2011
...and ascetic that Im damn near diabetic. <br/ As a saint Im just the saintliest around. <br/ When a youth...Shady ladies in diaphanous attire. <br/ But as Simeon Stylites I reject such flighty nighties. <br/ They are passports...
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Samuel Demands the Muse: Johnson's Stamp on Imaginative Literature
Magazine article by Jeffrey Meyers; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Winter 2007
Subjects: Authors, English--Influence, Authors, English--Works, English writers--Influence, English writers--Works, Johnson, Samuel (English writer)--Influence, Johnson, Samuel (English writer)--Works
...portrayed Johnson as a latter-day St. Simeon Stylites, standing bareheaded in wet weather...anonymous review about Johnson. In "Saint Samuel of Fleet Street" (1925), the...has proved himself of the stuff that Saints are made of.... He is one of the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Simeon Stylites Saint  - 2 results

 
 
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Simeon Stylites, Saint
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIMEON STYLITES, SAINT sim eon stili tez Gr.,= of a pillar, d. 459?, Syrian hermit...small platform on top of a high pillar. He had many imitators (called stylites) and gained the reverence of the whole Christian world. Feast: Jan...
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Monasticism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...extravagances of much of early monasticism (see, e.g., Simeon Stylites, Saint ). Monasticism in the East has changed little since...civilization of the West is incalculable (see Boniface, Saint , d.754). Monasteries were islands of stability...


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