Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The last century of Roman power (c. 500 to c. 620): army, church, and countryside
- 2 Collapse or adaptation? The problem of the urban decline in late antique Greece
- 3 Invasion or inflation? Hoards and barbarians in sixth- and early seventh-century Greece
- 4 Dark-Age Greece (c. 620 to c. 800)
- 5 Revival and expansion (c. 800 to c. 900)
- 6 The beginning of prosperity (c. 900 to c. 1050)
- 7 Early medieval Greece and the Middle Byzantine economy
- 8 Social structures and Byzantine administration in early medieval Greece
- 9 Christianity in early medieval Greece
- 10 Conclusion: the people of early medieval Greece
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Early medieval Greece and the Middle Byzantine economy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The last century of Roman power (c. 500 to c. 620): army, church, and countryside
- 2 Collapse or adaptation? The problem of the urban decline in late antique Greece
- 3 Invasion or inflation? Hoards and barbarians in sixth- and early seventh-century Greece
- 4 Dark-Age Greece (c. 620 to c. 800)
- 5 Revival and expansion (c. 800 to c. 900)
- 6 The beginning of prosperity (c. 900 to c. 1050)
- 7 Early medieval Greece and the Middle Byzantine economy
- 8 Social structures and Byzantine administration in early medieval Greece
- 9 Christianity in early medieval Greece
- 10 Conclusion: the people of early medieval Greece
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
On a hot summer day in the 990s, St Nikon was on his way back to Sparta from Corinth in the company of a group of men who enjoyed ‘the sweet grace’ of his words. They were all travelling by foot and as they passed by Amyklion and were approaching Sparta, Nikon's companions witnessed one of his most astounding miracles.
It was then summertime and the season of the high noon and violent heat and unbearable warmth. Those sharing the journey with the holy man, as has been said, were besieged terribly by thirst. For there was not on all that road either a spring-fed stream or river's flow or a snow-fed torrent or any other natural source of water at all. These men were stricken to the ground in the middle of the road; their breathing was cut short by the continuous heat and the choking resulting from this and they were violently pressed to give up their lives. Seeing that they were about to be in grave danger and taking pity on their weakness, the saint gave himself up to prayer as was his custom. Then, with his cross-bearing staff he struck the ground on which he stood and prayed. O your wonders, my Christ! Water immediately was given from the hollows of the earth – the sweetest and the most radiant and the most fit to drink. Those who were overcome by thirst and almost dead, having taken their fill of this, were revived and regained their strength.
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- The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050The Early Middle Ages, pp. 209 - 229Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011