| Description |
1 online resource (537 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Ashgate research companion |
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Ashgate research companion.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration and Citation; Abbreviations; Contributors; Maps; Introduction; PART I: GENRES, VARIETIES AND FORMS; 1 Byzantine Hagiography and its Literary Genres. Some Critical Observations; 2 Greek Passions of the Martyrs in Byzantium; 3 Collections of Miracles (Fifth-Fifteenth Centuries); 4 Collections of Edifying Stories; 5 Greek Byzantine Hagiography in Verse; 6 Symeon Metaphrastes and the Metaphrastic Movement; 7 Synaxaria and the Synaxarion of Constantinople; PART II: HAGIOGRAPHY AS LITERATURE; 8 The Byzantine Hagiographer and his Text |
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9 Audience, Language and Patronage in Byzantine Hagiography10 Byzantine Hagiography and Hymnography: An Interrelationship; 11 Fiction and/or Novelisation in Byzantine Hagiography; 12 Holy Actors and Actresses Fools and Cross-Dressers as the Protagonists of Saints' Lives; 13 The Literary Portrait of Byzantine Female Saints; PART III: HAGIOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY; 14 Economy and Society in Byzantine Hagiography: Realia and Methodological Questions; 15 The City in Byzantine Hagiography; 16 The Hagiography of Doubt and Scepticism; General Index; Index of Greek Words; Manuscript Index |
| Summary |
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 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 f |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 5, 2014) |
| Subject |
Hagiography.
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hagiographies (works)
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Angelology & Demonology.
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Hagiography
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Religion
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| SUBJECT |
Byzantine Empire -- Religion
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| Subject |
Byzantine Empire
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Efthymiades, Stephanos
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| ISBN |
9781409409526 |
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140940952X |
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