Ashgate research companion to Byzantine hagiography. Genres and contexts / Volume II, (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Research companion to Byzantine hagiography; Byzantine hagiography; Genres and contexts
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stephanos Efthymiades.
• Editors: Efthymiadis, Stephanos
• Contents: Contents: Introduction, Stephanos Efthymiadis. Part I Genres, Varieties and Forms: Byzantine hagiography and its literary genres. Some critical observations, Martin Hinterberger; Greek passions of the martyrs in Byzantium, Marina Detoraki; Collections of miracles (fifth-fifteenth centuries), Stephanos Efthymiadis; Collections of edifying stories, André Binggeli; Greek Byzantine hagiography in verse, Stephanos Efthymiadis; Symeon Metaphrastes and the metaphrastic movement, Christian Høgel; Synaxaria and the synaxarion of Constantinople, Andrea Luzzi. Part II Hagiography as Literature: The Byzantine hagiographer and his text, Martin Hinterberger; Audience, language and patronage in Byzantine hagiography, Stephanos Efthymiadis - Nikos Kalogeras; Byzantine hagiography and hymnography: an interrelationship, Antonia Giannouli; Fiction and/or novelisation in Byzantine hagiography, Charis Messis; Holy actors and actresses fools and cross-dressers as the protagonists of saints’ Lives, Stavroula Constantinou; The literary portrait of Byzantine female saints, Nathalie Delierneux. Part III Hagiography and Society: Economy and society in Byzantine hagiography: realia and methodological questions, Michel Kaplan - Eleonora Kountoura-Galaki; The city in Byzantine hagiography, Helen G. Saradi; The hagiography of doubt and scepticism, Anthony Kaldellis. Indexes.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 235.2094961; Hagiography; Byzantine Empire -- Religion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351393270; 9781315141909; 9781351393263; 9781351393287
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