The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Genres and Contexts
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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$262.50
ISBN: 978-1-4094-0951-9
Category: Religion & Theology
Image Count:
4
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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