The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Genres and Contexts

Editor/Author Efthymiadis, Stephanos
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Single-User Purchase Price: $175.00
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ISBN: 978-1-4094-0951-9
Category: Religion & Theology
Image Count: 4
Book Status: Available
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This book is the work of an international group of experts and is addressed to 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 appreciated by the Byzantines themselves and modern readers.

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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Transliteration and Citation
  • Abbreviations
  • Contributors
  • Maps
  • Introduction - Stephanos Efthymiadis
  • PART I: GENRES, VARIETIES AND FORMS
  • 1 Byzantine Hagiography and its Literary Genres. Some Critical Observations - Martin Hinterberger
  • 2 Greek Passions of the Martyrs in Byzantium - Marina Detoraki
  • 3 Collections of Miracles (Fifth–Fifteenth Centuries) - Stephanos Efthymiadis
  • 4 Collections of Edifying Stories - André Binggeli
  • 5 Greek Byzantine Hagiography in Verse - Stephanos Efthymiadis
  • 6 Symeon Metaphrastes and the Metaphrastic Movement - Christian Høgel
  • 7 Synaxaria and the Synaxarion of Constantinople - Andrea Luzzi
  • PART II: HAGIOGRAPHY AS LITERATURE
  • 8 The Byzantine Hagiographer and his Text - Martin Hinterberger
  • 9 Audience, Language and Patronage in Byzantine Hagiography - Stephanos Efthymiadis – Nikos Kalogeras
  • 10 Byzantine Hagiography and Hymnography: An Interrelationship - Antonia Giannouli
  • 11 Fiction and/or Novelisation in Byzantine Hagiography - Charis Messis
  • 12 Holy Actors and Actresses Fools and Cross-Dressers as the Protagonists of Saints’ Lives - Stavroula Constantinou
  • 13 The Literary Portrait of Byzantine Female Saints - Nathalie Delierneux
  • PART III: HAGIOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY
  • 14 Economy and Society in Byzantine Hagiography: - Realia and Methodological Questions Michel Kaplan – Eleonora Kountoura-Galaki
  • 15 The City in Byzantine Hagiography - Helen G. Saradi
  • 16 The Hagiography of Doubt and Scepticism - Anthony Kaldellis