The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Volume I: Periods and PlacesProfessor Stephanos Efthymiadis Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucial insight to the development of religious thought and practice, social and literary life, and the history of the empire. It emerged in the fourth century with the pioneering Life of St Antony and continued to evolve until the end of the empire in the fifteenth century, and beyond. The appeal and dynamics of this genre radiated beyond the confines of Byzantium, and it was practised also in many Oriental and Slavic languages within the orbit of the broader Byzantine world. This companion is the work of an international team of specialists and represents the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. It consists of two volumes and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, Medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of the narrative. This first volume covers the authors and texts of the four distinctive periods during which Greek Byzantine hagiography developed, as well as the hagiography produced in Oriental and Slavic languages and in geographical milieux around the periphery of the empire, from Italy to Armenia. Volume II addresses questions of genres and the social and other contexts of Byzantine hagiography. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Tomas Hägg | 17 |
Stephanos Efthymiadis with Vincent Déroche with contributions by André | 35 |
Hagiography from the Dark Age to the Age of Symeon Metaphrastes | 95 |
The Hagiography of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries | 143 |
ItaloGreek Hagiography | 153 |
Hagiography in Late Byzantium 12041453 | 173 |
The Hagiography of the Byzantine Periphery and the Christian Orient | 197 |
17 | 205 |
35 | 213 |
95 | 223 |
143 | 239 |
173 | 255 |
199 | 297 |
227 | 386 |
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