2023 1st Edition Inscribed
THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT CYPRIAN
By Paul Summers Young
Author Bio: 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.
Synopsis: 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.
Format: Hardcover, duodecimo or twelvemo (12mo 5 × 7 3⁄8 in 127 × 187 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: English
Published By: Black Letter Press, Germany
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Like New -
Collation:
pp. 83
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
SKU: BTETM0002391
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
2023 1st Edition Inscribed
THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT CYPRIAN
By Paul Summers Young
Author Bio: 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.
Synopsis: 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.
Format: Hardcover, duodecimo or twelvemo (12mo 5 × 7 3⁄8 in 127 × 187 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: English
Published By: Black Letter Press, Germany
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Like New -
Collation:
pp. 83
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
SKU: BTETM0002391
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
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