A selection from the magna catechesis of St Theodore the studite, housed at Madrid's national library of Spain. : edition, translation and commentary

Abstract

lt all started with my supervisor eagerly acquiescing to my wish to work at some Classics-related subject matter of peripheral standing for my M.A. thesis, since I was disinclined to get myself to grips with a dominant topic that had already been taken in hand over and over again. Accordingly, after a wide consultation with my supervisor, Professor Horatio C. R. Vella, and also with Professor Stanley Fiorini, formerly Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Malta and presently one of the chief exponents of Maltese Medieval History, who kindly offered to give a helping hand in this regard, I decided not only to set my eyes on a post-classical Greek personage and his writings, but also to go in for such an enterprise by availing myself of primary sources.