title: Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos (Michael Psellos in Translation)
author: Michael Psellos
description: "This volume presents in translation all the texts that Psellos wrote concerning his family. They present the reader with the most complete picture we have of any non-imperial family by casting light on the life of Byzantine women outside the circle of hagiography and court history. The volume includes a long funeral oration for his mother, a funeral oration for his daughter Styliane, a legal work regarding the engagement of his second, adopted, daughter, a letter to his very young grandson, six letters regarding Psellos's family, and a brief work on the festival of St. Agath. In Kaldellis's excellent translation, Michael Psellos's times and family come to life." (Comitatus)
zlib_text: ON THE FAMILY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  POPE FRANCIS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## ON THE FAMILY
  
  
  General Audiences  
  17 December 2014 — 16 September 2015
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  English translation by L’Osservatore Romano
  
  
  Cover photograph by Stefano Spaziani
  
  
  Cover design by Roxanne Mei Lum
  
  
  © 2015 by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City  
  © 2015 by Ignatius Press, San Francisco  
  All rights reserved  
  ISBN 978-1-62164-100-1 (PB)  
  ISBN 978-1-68149-689-4 (EB)  
  Library of Congress Control Number 2015953756  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CONTENTS
  
  
  [1 Nazareth](index_split_005.html#filepos4489)
  
  
  [2 The Mother](index_split_006.html#filepos11074)
  
  
  [3A The Father (I)](index_split_007.html#filepos16951)
  
  
  [3B The Father (II)](index_split_008.html#filepos23413)
  
  
  [4 The Children](index_split_009.html#filepos29673)
  
  
  [5 Siblings](index_split_010.html#filepos37894)
  
  
  [6 The Elderly](index_split_011.html#filepos44731)
  
  
  [7 The Grandparents](index_split_012.html#filepos5235