Louis Pasteur: the child is father of the man by Brey, Paul T.

“…There is, however, very limited documentation on the early period of Pasteur’s life, apart from his son-in-law’s (René Vallery-Radot) biographical account, and this is considered by many as more akin to a work of hagiography. We do have, on the other hand, Pasteur’s correspondence with his parents and sisters as compiled and annotated by his grandson, Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot. …”
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Sor Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, «Chicaba», or Writing on the Other’s Skin Sor Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, «Chicaba» o escribir en la piel del otro by Beatriz FERRÚS ANTÓN

“…Her text was used by Juan Carlos Paniagua to write a hagiography. The aim of this articvle is to comment on Paniagua’s text in relation to the religious tradition of the time, especially of women. …”
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To the Source Studies of the Byzantine Accounts of the Spiritual Centers in Palestine by Mikhail Vadimovich Bibikov

“…The review of the sources includes the characteristics of such literary monuments as the texts of the Holy Scripture of the Septuagint, sermons, spiritual hymns, and hagiography. The main documental evidences are represented by the Notitia episcopatuum, Synodal acts, canons and decisions, Typika of monasteries, account of the churches, abbeys and nunneries in Christian East. …”
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Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage by Gottskálk Jensson

“…We have the names of monastic authors, poets, translators, compilators, and scribes, who engaged creatively with such diverse subjects as Christian hagiography, contemporary history, and Norse mythology, skillfully amalgamating all of this into a coherent, imaginative whole. …”
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Socjologia wiedzy jako perspektywa badawcza w analizie interpretacji wzorca programowego by Janusz Sujecki

“…The choice of Marxism as a program pattern is only a consequence of referring to an instance of the hagiography of the Polish socialistic movement and is strictly related to my interests concerning the history of the Polish socialistic concept. …”
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Las vidas de María en el ámbito peninsular pretridentino by Carme Arronis Llopis, Fernando Baños Vallejo

“…Key words: life of Mary, Marian literature, hagiography, vitae Christi, literary genre, translation of religious literature and rewriting. …”
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Этнические перемещения в западных провинциях поздней Римской империи в IV в.: к вопросу об истории некоторых войсковых подразделений / Ethnic movements in the western provinces of... by Mekhamadiev E.A.

“…In order to study the question the author turned to hagiography (“Life of Saint Martin of Tour” and “Life of Ambrosius of Milane”), classical narrative accounts (Ammianus Marcellinus and Zosimus), and also to inscription from the city of Strumica (Republic of Macedonia). …”
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The Issues of the Diocesan Organization of the Breton Сhurch in the 9th Century by Arteev Mikhail

“…Using a considerable variety of sources (chronicles, hagiography, charters, letters) the author of the present article shows a process of formation of the system of the Breton bishoprics during the Carolingian era, when this land was a part of the Frankish empire. …”
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«Creación y devoción en cancioneros catalanes: el Cançoner sagrat de vides de sants» by Tomás Martínez Romero

“…Cançoner sagrat de vides de sants. Hagiography. Prays. Medieval Catalan literature.  …”
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Not really an aftermath. The role of actual construction in the design process of the Sydney Opera House roof by Paolo Stracchi, Luciano Cardellicchio, Paolo Tombesi

“…For the past 50 years, the Sydney Opera House has been the subject of a prodigious hagiography of the personalities involved in its realization and their legendary querelles. …”
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The psalter in the prose lives of St Guthlac by Appleton, H

“…The Anglo-Saxon hermit Guthlac of Crowland is the subject of an eighth-century Latin hagiography by the monk Felix. Felix’s Vita sancti Guthlaci was translated into Old English prose prior to the mid-tenth century. …”

Growing old in Byzantium: the construction of ageing in twelfth-century literary and visual culture by Hitt, J

“…It utilises a range of Greek textual sources, including historiography, hagiography, fictional literature, occasional poems and verse epigrams, together with visual evidence in the form of religious icons, monumental art and manuscript illumination. …”

Antonio de Fuenmayor's Life of Pius V: a Pope in early modern Spanish historiography by Pattenden, M

“…The fact that Fuenmayor’s depiction of Pius V is just as interesting and carefully constructed as the better-known Italian examples reminds us to be careful how we prioritize such examples of Counter-Reformation hagiography. Moreover, its existence underlines how Italians, who staffed most of the papacy’s offices at this time, hardly held a monopoly on projecting or defining the papacy’s image. …”

Eunapius of Sardis by Buck, D, David F. Buck

“…</p> <p>Eunapius wrote the <em>Lives</em> c. 400, partly for didactic purposes, but more to commemorate Chrysanthius and Prohaeresius and to counter Christian hagiography. However, an examination of pertinent works shows that Eunapius owed nothing to Christian hagiography. …”

Liturgy and Learning: The Encyclopaedic Function of the <i>Old English Martyrology</i> by John Joseph Gallagher

“…Subjects covered in the text include geography, language, hagiography, temporal reckoning, computus, astronomy, cosmology, meteorology, science, liturgy, and learning of a general Christian nature pertaining to the saints and the liturgical year. …”
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Aproximaciones hermenéuticas sobre el agustinianismo en la Hispania tardoantigua: Mérida a principios del siglo VII / Hermeneutics approximations about Augustinianism in Late Antiq... by Gonzalo J. Escudero Manzano

“…But starting off new methodologies tendencies –for more hermeneutic plane than historic– can serve us for intuit the mentality of those who were its writers, beyond a hagiography and propa-gandistic piece. Palabras clave: Libro de las Vidas de los Santos Padres de Mérida, La Ciudad de Dios, agustinianismo, filosofía tardoantigua, hermenéutica, Mérida. …”
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From Local to the State: Acknowledging the Cult of Qiansui Baozhang in the Chan Historiography by Lu Zhang

“…The earliest known account of Baozhang can be found in the <i>Jiatai kuaiji zhi</i>, where he is described as a Daoist alchemist. Subsequently, his hagiography was compiled in the Chan historiography <i>Jiatai pu denglu</i>. …”
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Biografia w kazaniach pogrzebowych Jakuba Olszewskiego by Michał Kuran

“…Olszewski thus combines scheme given by Quintilian with the elements of scheme known from hagiography. He presents the pattern of sanctity available to everyone. …”
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„Die Presse verrät ihren Beruf“. Theodor Geiger (1891–1952) – ein (fast) vergessener Klassiker auch der Kommunikationswissenschaft by Horst Pöttker

“…From the example of Theodor Geiger, a classic forgotten in communication science and journalism, productive possibilities of an interdisciplinary subject history can be derived which does not understand itself as hagiography.…”
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Biograf Aelreda z Rievaulx i jego źródła by Ryszard Groń

“…The difficulties are linked with the fact that Aelred lived in medieval times and his biography was written in the form of a hagiography. This style of writing was very popular in the middle ages and usually served to emphasize the holiness of a person’s life, i.e. to demonstrate an exemplary life of Christian vir­tues rather than as an attempt to concentrate on biographical details. …”
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