Ritual, Legend, and Metaphor: Narratives of the Willow in Yuan <i>Zaju</i> by Qian Wang, Qiong Yang

“…The legend of Lü Dongbin delivering a willow spirit to immortality is a recurring motif in Han Chinese folklore and Daoist hagiography, which also finds expression in the iconic image of Guanyin Pusa or Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara holding a willow branch with which they cure diseases for people and bring fulfillment to their wishes. …”
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The Life of S. Pancratius of Taormina by Stallman, C

“…The analysis of the sources of the text and its presentation of the apostolic era contributes to our understanding of the Byzantine attitude to the past and of the novelistic approach to hagiography. The <i>Life</i> is a product of an important, but obscure period of Sicilian history, and it provides some evidence from a local perspective concerning matters such as ecclesiastical arrangements and attitudes in Sicily, views about religious images, practices in church decoration, liturgical rites, book production, the development of legends concerning the apostles, especially S. …”

Exodus and the literary representations of pilgrimage in Anglo-Saxon England by Burton, SA

“…This thesis proposes that, by revisiting the literary-historical accounts of Anglo-Saxon pilgrimage in Anglo-Latin hagiography and letters, and by introducing the idea of a processional pilgrimage akin to a Rogation as depicted in historiographical writings and anonymous homilies, the Old English <em>Exodus</em> can profitably be read as an example of the material practice of pilgrimage, particularly suited to its putative eighth-century context.…”

Has the sweeping revisionism of the Arian Controversy gone too far in sidelining the real theological and political dispute that shaped Christian doctrine? by Shaw, A

“…The study does not want to return to a place of Athanasian hagiography, but rather argue that "Arian" served as a useful polemical heuristic to identify a distinct theology that the bishop (and others) found unacceptable. …”

On the Life and Deeds of San Precario, Patron Saint of Precarious Workers and Lives by Marcello Tarì, Ilaria Vanni

“…The Saint appears in public spaces in occasion of rallies, marches, interventions and demonstrations, and its popularity has lead to development of a precise and colorful iconography, hagiography and rituals. This popularity conversely is also the sign of the gravity of the issue of precarity in Italy and Europe .San Precario epitomises current Italian activist practices. …”
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Il sorriso del conte zio. Manzoni, Sade e l’omaggio alla Vergine by Fabio Camilletti

“…The essay examines the figure of Manzoni’s Lucia in the light of the literary ‘type’ of the ‘persecuted maiden’, at the intersection between hagiography, libertine literature, sentimental novel, Gothic narrative, and Romantic literature. …”
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V. I. Lamansky and the origins of “russian byzantism” by Alexey Malinov

“…The development of Lamansky's views on Byzantium from his first monograph "On the Slavs in Asia Minor, Africa and Spain" up to his last unfinished book "The Slavonic Hagiography of St. Cyril as a Religious Epic and a Historical Source" is shown. …”
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Research on the Interdependence and Interaction between Sacred Space and Religious Personality—Centered on the Political and Religious Image of Wanhui 萬回 (632–712) by Jiajia Zheng

“…Secondly, by investigating the reasons for shaping the political and religious images of Wanhui in monastic biography and Buddhist hagiography, this article argues that this was a conscious arrangement due to the political purposes or religious intentions of the compilers. …”
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Student politics in Gujarat: 1967 - 1985 by Kureshi, S

“…The tactics utilised for its early expansion, the claims related to its involvement in the Navnirman Agitation which form a central part of Sangh hagiography, the increasing influence of the Sangh in student politics after the Navnirman Agitation and the methods utilised by the Sangh in engaging with the two anti reservation agitations, with a particular focus on the student component of these agitations are sought to be understood. …”

Reading and imagining family life in later medieval western Europe by Gordon, SR

“…<p>This thesis discusses the ideals of behaviour which sought to govern family life and which were common currency in England and northern Europe, how they were constructed, and how the late medieval gentry and nobility interacted with them. Hagiography, sermons, and courtesy literature all explicitly sought to influence the views and behaviour of their audiences, whilst the letter collections of the Pastons, Plumptons, Stonors, Celys, and Armburghs offer an insight into the self-perceptions of the recipients of this didactic material. …”

Rhetoric in recusant writing, published 1580-1603 by Sullivan, C

“…Nonetheless, three devotional genres - meditation, hagiography and catechism - recognize that effective written appeals to a reader can be made using rhetoric. …”

'The most affecting eloquence': Wordsworth and silence by Fay, J

“…It uncovers the comprehensive investigation into monastic history and hagiography (with special emphasis on St Basil) that Wordsworth engaged in between 1807 and 1810, showing that the type of silence he valued came from the monastic tradition. …”

Civic image and civic patriotism in Liverpool 1880-1914 by Vickers, M

“…This study does not confine itself to public events and pageantry, instead it explores such spheres as municipal art policy, Liverpool's public health record, the attempts to extend the city boundaries, civic hagiography, the foundation of the University, women and the ideal of citizenship and the influence of football on civic identity to demonstrate the importance of images in the city's social, political and institutional history.…”

Endovascular Treatment of a Patient with Multivessel Deсease Combined with Chronic Occlusion of the Right Coronary Artery by D. K. Vasiliev, B. A. Rudenko, D. A. Feshchenko, F. B. Shukurov, A. S. Shanoyan

“…Introduction. Coronary hagiography revealed 70%-prevalence of multivessel coronary lesions. …”
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Frontier Army of the Late Roman Empire in the Mid-4th c. A.D. (Case of Isauria and the Rhine Frontier): on the Ways of Territorial Deployment of Military Units by Evgeniy Mekhamadiev

“…Conon of Isauria” (hagiography), an important inscription of Julian the Caesar (future Emperor Julian the Apostate) from Upper Germany (epigraphy) and the work of Ammianus Marcellinus “The Deeds” (Res gestae). …”
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Byzantine People’s Anthropology. The Force of the Foot And Its Reflection in the Life of St. Theodore Sikeot by Nikolay Dmitrievich Barabanov

“…First of all, about filling of this phenomenon by the Christian meaning, which must exclude the pagan connotations of the phenomenon and which reflected the erudition and conceptual tools of the author of hagiography and his contemporaries. The search of the answer to this question leads primarily to the texts, the plots and the characters of the Holy Scriptures of the old and New Testaments.…”
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Le stylite (esṭūnōrō) et sa ṣawmaʿa face aux milieux cléricaux islamiques et miaphysites (Ier–IIe / VIIe-VIIIe siècles) by Simon Pierre

“…I rely on poetry, early lexicography, bilingual hagiography and historiography, and especially the Syriac and Arabic versions of Abū Bakr’s waṣiyya, which expressly refers to these monks. …”
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Defining wisdom : Ratnākaraśānti's Sāratamā by Seton, G

“…The first part introduces Ratnākaraśānti’s life, philosophy and doxography based upon evidence from a Tibetan colophon to his Mādhyamika commentary and the Tibetan hagiography of his student Adhīśa (a.k.a. Atiśa) and upon a comparative analysis of his doxographical works that are prerequisites for reading his <em>Sāratamā</em>. …”

The restoration of creation in the early Anglo-Saxon vitae of Cuthbert and Guthlac by Brooks, B

“…Chapter 4 argues that Felix's <em>Vita Sancti Guthlaci</em> (<em>VSG</em>) unites the development of Guthlac with a physically delineated Creation, and that the restoration of Creation is elevated to an even greater degree here than in Bede's hagiography. Chapter 5 argues that the author of the <em>Old English Prose Guthlac</em> (<em>OEPG</em>) grounds his <em>vita</em> by utilizing a landscape lexis shared with contemporary boundary clauses, so that here the relationship between the saint and Creation has greater force; it further argues that <em>Guthlac A</em> uniquely connects Guthlac with the doctrine of replacement, consolidating links between his arrival to the eremitic space and the restoration of prelapsarian Eden.…”

Myang ral Nyi ma ’od zer (1124-1192): authority and authorship in the coalescing of the rNying ma tantric tradition by Cantwell, C

“…Myang ral Nyi ma ’od zer was seminal to this development: himself a tantric revealer recognised as a rebirth of the emperor Khri srong lde’u btsan, he was responsible for a multi-volume revealed collection on the Eight Sacred Word deities, the Eightfold Sacred Word, Embodying the Sugatas (bka’ brgyad bde gshegs ’dus pa); was central to the lineage of the transmitted texts (bka’ ma) on the same deities; and produced the first full hagiography of Padmasambhava, while his immediate successors began the work of collecting the scriptures for the »Ancient Tantra Collection«, based on organising principles established in his work. …”