The Christian miracle tales strongly support the identification of Sts. Cosmas and Damian as doctors. The most famous of the saints’ posthumous miracles, is that of the Black Leg. The main source of this story is the Golden Legend by Jacobus da Varagine, collection of fanciful hagiographies compiled in the 13th century. Saints Cosmas and Damian miraculously transplanted the black leg of the Ethiopian man onto the white body of the verger with “cancerous” leg. Saints appeared to the patient in a dream, amputated his diseased leg and replaced it with the leg of a recently died man. This dramatic cure was attractive for many western artists. The iconography of this miracle was depicted for the first time in a Florentine panel of ca.1370. The c...
Greek and Roman literary sources inform us about the tradition of the transfer of Cybele’s cult from...
The monastery of the Virgin of the Source (Θετόκος τῆς Πηγῆς) at Constantinople, remarkable for both...
The epithet ‘first witnesses’, conferred on the three saints in the title, is but a conventional de...
The Christian miracle tales strongly support the identification of Sts. Cosmas and Damian as doctors...
Sts. Cosmas and Damian, the twin patron saints of medicine, were once among the most recognized sain...
Julien Pierre. Le miracle de la jambe noire dans l'art : Kees W. Zimmerman, One Leg in the Grave : t...
A contribution to the study of Serbo-Bulgarian relations in the 1230s The enquiry into the cult of r...
This paper sets out to explore the miraculous accounts concerning the Crucifixion groups in two Ragu...
The paper discusses the character of the translations of saints’ relics in the late medieval central...
Les miracles de thaumaturges vivants, attestés au temps de Jésus et des apôtres dans les Évangiles e...
This paper deals with the legend of Saints Cosmas and Damian, patron saints of medicine doctors and ...
In the coenobitic community of Stephanites, Ethiopian monks accused of lack of orthodoxy, there appe...
In recent years the study of miraculous images has experienced a substantial re-evaluation of their ...
During the Byzantine Times, medicine and surgery developed as Greek physicians continued to practice...
For the first time is published the original Greek text together with a Russian translationof an une...
Greek and Roman literary sources inform us about the tradition of the transfer of Cybele’s cult from...
The monastery of the Virgin of the Source (Θετόκος τῆς Πηγῆς) at Constantinople, remarkable for both...
The epithet ‘first witnesses’, conferred on the three saints in the title, is but a conventional de...
The Christian miracle tales strongly support the identification of Sts. Cosmas and Damian as doctors...
Sts. Cosmas and Damian, the twin patron saints of medicine, were once among the most recognized sain...
Julien Pierre. Le miracle de la jambe noire dans l'art : Kees W. Zimmerman, One Leg in the Grave : t...
A contribution to the study of Serbo-Bulgarian relations in the 1230s The enquiry into the cult of r...
This paper sets out to explore the miraculous accounts concerning the Crucifixion groups in two Ragu...
The paper discusses the character of the translations of saints’ relics in the late medieval central...
Les miracles de thaumaturges vivants, attestés au temps de Jésus et des apôtres dans les Évangiles e...
This paper deals with the legend of Saints Cosmas and Damian, patron saints of medicine doctors and ...
In the coenobitic community of Stephanites, Ethiopian monks accused of lack of orthodoxy, there appe...
In recent years the study of miraculous images has experienced a substantial re-evaluation of their ...
During the Byzantine Times, medicine and surgery developed as Greek physicians continued to practice...
For the first time is published the original Greek text together with a Russian translationof an une...
Greek and Roman literary sources inform us about the tradition of the transfer of Cybele’s cult from...
The monastery of the Virgin of the Source (Θετόκος τῆς Πηγῆς) at Constantinople, remarkable for both...
The epithet ‘first witnesses’, conferred on the three saints in the title, is but a conventional de...