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On the representation of visions in Coptic hagiographical texts
Published 2022“…I use six saints’ hagiographical traditions as case studies: Kollouthos, Menas, Phoibammon of Preht, Merkourios, Viktor, son of Romanos, and James the Persian. …”
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Writing down the feats and setting up the scene: hagiographers and architectural patrons in the Age of Empires
Published 2011“…The small portion of legends that were written down by hagiographers-many more must have been transmitted orallyis especially valuable for those who seek to explore the nexus between religion and society. …”
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Writing down the feats and setting up the scene: Hagiographers and architectural patrons in the age of empires
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Ælfric's hagiographic sources and the Latin legendary preserved in B.L. MS Cotton Nero E i + CCCC MS 9 and other manuscripts
Published 1980“…<p>The attention which has recently been devoted to Ælfric's dependence on large collections of Latin writings for his homiletic sources is in this study extended to hagiographic texts through an examination of the relationship between the sources of Ælfric's saints' lives and an early Latin legendary, here termed Cotton-Corpus. …”
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Koraközépkori hagiográfia és a kopt irodalom. Egy kopt osztrakon szövegének irodalomtörténeti elemzése
Published 2001“…Such a hagiographical piece is the text of the Berlin ostracon, which first of all speaks about the wisdom of Cyrill, which he possessed even in his childhood. …”
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The cult of St. Edward the Confessor, 1066-1399
Published 2001“…After discerning the influence of the cult, the focus shifts to secular and hagiographical documents which presented the king. The importance of the documents is that they record any changes in the perception of Edward. …”
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From Romans to Goths and Franks: ethnic identities in sixth- and seventh-century Spain and Gaul
Published 2012“…Chapter two covers ‘Romans’ of the West—the Hispano-Romans—who appear in John of Biclar’s Chronicle, a hagiographical Life, and civil and canon law. Chapter three discusses the use of ‘Goth’ as an ethnic descriptor, a religious identifier, and a political term. …”
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Ecclesiastical penance in the Church of Constantinople
Published 1979“…<p>The present study provides for the first time a systematic and comprehensive examination of the evidence for ecclesiastical penance found in the vast corpus of pre-Metaphrastic Byzantine hagiography.The value of the thesis lies primarily in the body of evidence which it makes available and interprets within the context of what can be known of the historical development of penitential practice among the Byzantine laity and of the nature and limitations of hagiographical evidence.</p> <p>The evidence is arranged chronologically in four sections (330-551, 451—692, 692-863, 843-983), and a distinction is made within each section between evidence which reflects a Constantinopolitan milieu and evidence taken from other areas of the Greek-speaking Christian world.…”
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Rewriting the founder: Werden on the Ruhr and the uses of hagiography
Published 2015“…The rich hagiographical corpus, charters and privileges of the monastery of Werden on the Ruhr allow unparalleled access to its ninth-century history. …”
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Honey on the brim of the poison cup: translation and propaganda in Rufinus's Latin version of the Historia Monachorum in Aegypto
Published 2012“…The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (HMA) is one of the most important hagiographic sources of late fourth-century Egyptian monasticism, which through its various translations exercised a notable influence on both Western and Eastern monastic and hagiographical traditions. …”
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'And from his side came blood and milk': the martyrdom of St Philotheus of Antioch in Coptic Egypt
Published 2015“…For this purpose I focus primarily on the material provided by the texts forming the Coptic hagiographical tradition of the early Christian martyr Philotheus of Antioch, and more specifically - the <em>Martyrdom of St Philotheus of Antioch</em> (Pierpont Morgan M583). …”
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Syriac versions of the “Historia Monachorum in Aegypto”. A preliminary investigation on the basis of the first chapter
Published 2011“…The «Historia Monachorum in Aegypto» (HMA), is one of the most important hagiographical sources concerning Egyptian monasticism of the late fourth century. …”
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Swimming against the current: Muslim conversion to Christianity in the Early Islamic period
Published 2016“…This article explores Muslim conversion to Christianity using a body of hagiographical sources in Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, and Latin. …”
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Pilgrim and patron : Cnut in post-conquest historical writing
Published 2015“…Preserved in chronicles and in hagiographical sources, within the context of accounts of royal patronage of religious houses and the cults of English saints, these narratives present Cnut as a generous patron and a king given to extravagant public gestures of piety. …”
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The hagiographies of Pierre Michon: Rimbaud le fils
Published 2004“…Focusing on <em>Rimbaud le fils</em> (1991), various hagiographical strategies are identified in the construction and narration of the text, and in the positioning of both author and reader in the posture of devotion. …”
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A commentary on Jerome's Vita Malchi
Published 2012“…<p>This Commentary on Jerome’s Vita Malchi begins with an Introduction which summarises some of the main points of interest of this early hagiographical text, including its relevance to contemporary debates about asceticism and the classical and biblical influences on the language and content. …”
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Sirmian martyrs in exile: Pannonian case-studies and a re-evaluation of the St. Demetrius problem
Published 2010“…The question of the origins of the cult of the fourth century martyr, Demetrius of Thessalonica has been the focal point of hagiographical research since the first publication of his passions by the Bollandists in 1780. …”
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Vernacular literature in eighth- and ninth-century Mercia
Published 2017“…In Chapter 2, I offer a reading of the hagiographical poetry of Cynewulf, namely Juliana and Elene, in light of the remarkably – and arguably uniquely – powerful position of women in Mercia from the reign of Offa onwards. …”
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BHL 2178: A new source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius
Published 2022“…<p>In his <em>Life of Dionysius</em>, found within his hagiographical collection <em>The Lives of Saints</em>, Ælfric of Eynsham notes that the saint ‘sende his geferan sume to Ispaniam’ (‘sent some of his companions to Spain’, l. 162).…”
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The Acta archiepiscoporum Rotomagensium and urban ecclesiastical rivalry in eleventh-century Rouen
Published 2011“…Their rivalry also included the production of literary works, especially hagiographical texts. The abbey and cathedral are also believed to have competed with each other architecturally. …”
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