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Hagiography in Byzantium: Literature, Social History and Cult

Book information

Publisher
Ashgate Publishing
Year
2011
ISBN
1409430162, 9781409430162
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9092563 bytes)
Pages
360\187
Time added
2021-04-29 07:23:14

Description

Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian. The studies reproduced in this volume cover a chronological range from late antiquity to the Paleologan era. They bring together annotated editions of specific texts and discussions of their contexts, complemented by comprehensive surveys of saintly and monastic cult. Having appeared over the last twenty years, they also illustrate and reflect upon the significant development and re-orientation which has marked the study of hagiography in recent decades.

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