Three Byzantine Saints

St. Vladimir Seminary Press
translated by Elizabeth Dawes and Norman Baynes
ISBN: 0913836443
price: $13.95  

These contemporary biographies of St. Daniel the Stylite, St.Theodore of Sykeon and St. John the Almsgiver help us to enter into the thought-world of Byzantine asceticism, with its miracles, demons, its contempt for for the body and its longing for the peace of the soul. Important documents for the social history of the Byzantine empire.