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Many thanks, John. I'll look this up.
Cheers,
Jim
On 26/06/2011 4:11 PM, John Dillon wrote:
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> 'Dendrite' is not a category of one. See Constantine P. Charalampidis, _The Dendrites in Pre-Christian and Christian Historical-Literary Tradition_ (Roma: L' 'Erma' di Bretschneider, 1995). A 'western' example who may be familiar is St. Anthony of Padua (for details see Charalampidis, _op. cit._, p. 91).
>
> David of Thessaloniki, BTW, is also known as David the Dendrite.
>
> Best again,
> John Dillon
>
> On Sunday, June 26, 2011, at 7:44 am, Jim Buslag wrote:
>
>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>> Dear John,
>> I find it fascinating that there is actually a word, dendrite, to
>> describe a hermit living in a tree. Does this mean that there is
>> something of a "class" of dendrites, or is this one of those words
>> that is coined for a unique usage?
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>>
>> On 25/06/2011 4:13 PM, John Dillon wrote:
>> >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>> >On Thursday, June 23, 2011, at 11:41 pm, Terri Morgan sent:
>> >
>> >>June 26
>> >
>> >>David of Thessalonika (d. c540) was from Mesopotamia. He must have
>> >>made his way to Thessalonika at a young age, because he was a hermit
>> >>outside the city for seventy years – living three of them in a tree.
>> >>Pavia has had his relics since 1054.
>> >>
>> >
>> >The earliest source for David of Thessalonika (latinized as
>> Thessalonica; now Thessaloniki) is ch. 69 of the _Leimon_ (title
>> latinized as _Pratum spirituale_) of John Moschus, who died in the
>> earlier seventh century and who was informed about David by an elderly
>> abbot of Thessaloniki who told him that as a young man he had been so
>> impressed by David that he became a monk. According to John Moschus,
>> David was a hermit of Mesopotamian origin who lived for seventy years
>> in a hut or cell near but outside Thessaloniki's city wall. Flames
>> were seen nightly to emanate from this dwelling but on the following
>> day both it and its occupant were always found unharmed. This
>> continued until David's passing.
>> >
>> >David has multiple Bioi, of which the best known (BHG493) presents
>> itself as having been written ca. 180 years after the events it
>> recounts. Usually thought to be a century or so later than that, its
>> understanding of sixth-century matters is noticeably defective and so
>> casts doubt upon the accuracy of whatever oral tradition (if any) it
>> may have drawn on. David's three years as a dendrite (_terminus
>> technicus_ for 'tree dweller') followed by his living in a cell at a
>> monastery to which he is said to have belonged seem first to occur here.
>> >
>> >Relics said to be David's are venerated in a chapel of the
>> katholikon of the monastery of St. Theodora of Thessaloniki in Thessaloniki.
>> >
>> >David of Thessaloniki depicted as a dendrite in the earlier
>> fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1315 and 1321) at the entrance to
>> the parecclesion of the Chora church in Constantinople:
>> >http://tinyurl.com/2co5gff
>> >http://tinyurl.com/2g67fvc
>> >http://tinyurl.com/4ttmul5
>> >http://tinyurl.com/4lstdev
>> >
>> >David of Thessaloniki depicted as a stylite in the earlier
>> fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) of the church of the Hodegetria in
>> the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending on one's view of the
>> matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo
>> and Metohija:
>> >http://tinyurl.com/4zs3y5h
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