A Case of Castration after an Embassy before Mu‘?wiya and the Question of Ma?b?b of Mabb?g’s Documentary Source
Abstract The present paper deals with a fragment gathered by the Melkite chronicler Ma?b?b of Mabb?g with the aim of shedding light on the source he used. This fragment narrates the encountering between two messengers sent to the court of Mu‘?wiya, Sergius and Andrew. In the text the first of both, who was sent by the rebel Shapohr, was castrated by Andrew, the messenger of the Byzantine emperor Constans II.
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A Case of Castration after an Embassy before Mu‘?wiya and the Question of Ma?b?b of Mabb?g’s Documentary Source. (2013). Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 30, 157-173. https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/Studia_H_Historia_Medieval/article/view/9462
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