2023 1st Edtn Inscribed Signed by Author(s) THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT CYPRIAN By Paul Summers Young Like New Esoteric

2023 1st Edition , Inscribed
THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT CYPRIAN

By Paul Summers Young
Paul Summers Young has worked on a number of projects with Black Letter Press, including a four-volume translation of Agrippa, and a new edition of Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magick.

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Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: Black Letter Press, Germany

duodecimo or twelvemo (12mo 5 × 7+3⁄8 127 × 187),Pages 83

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Translated by Paul Summers Young
In the 5th century Aelia Eudocia, the Empress of Byzantium, composed an epic poem on the crimes and salvation of Cyprian, a professional magician who is presented as the embodiment of everything a magician can be, who ran up against a devout teen in Antioch.
At heart, it’s about how the sorcerer for rent is brought into Justina’s world on her terms, dryly comic and worldwise, but it also allows us a glimpse of a religious landscape populated with Mystery Cults, Christianity included. It’s a moment captured as one world gave way to another.
Our edition is a new translation by Paul Summers Young, based on the definitive modern Italian translation and conveyed in a modern style to capture the immediacy of the original, with its strong sense of life lived in the streets of the Late Roman Levant.
It is not difficult to glimpse in the ancient wizard who allies with the Devil the traits of the various incarnations of the modern Faust—from his first literary appearance, in 1587, to the plays of Marlowe and Goethe.
Eudocia, a learned and nonconformist Empress of the East of the fifth century, gave the story of Saint Cyprian a seductive poetic version.



SKU: BTETM0002391
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg