Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography
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Bibliotheca Hagiographica
Byzantine Hagiography
Byzantine literary analysis
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Christian miracle collections
East Syriac
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female saint iconography
Georgian Princes
great
Greek saint lives
hagiographic
hagiographical
Hagiographical Dossier
Hagiographical Texts
Hagiographical Works
Historia Lausiaca
Historia Monachorum
Holy Man
Holy Mountain
lavra
Leo VI
literature
medieval religious narratives
michael
monasticism studies
Otto III
Persian Martyr
psellos
Rabban Hormizd
social context of Byzantine hagiography
St Demetrios
St Neilos
St Sabas
Stefan Nemanja
Symeon Metaphrastes
Syrian Fathers
Syrian Orthodox
texts
theodore
Vita Antonii
works
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754650331
- Weight: 1020g
- Dimensions: 169 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social landscapes, and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography, and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts, not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance.
Stephanos Efthymiadis is Professor at the Open University of Cyprus.
