Why Rita? Devotional Practice and Pilgrimage Intent Towards A Medieval Italian Saint In Central Dublin by Tony Kiely

“…Furthermore, it can range from being deeply personal and intense (Kasten, 2014; Mayblin, 2014; Ganzevoort, 2008; Jansen & Kuhl, 2008; Ghezzi, 2007; Martin, 2006; Ellsberg, 2006), to superficially tangential and ephemeral (Coles, 2012; Tari & Vanni, 2008), wherein devotional strategies may be rooted in ‘quid pro quo’ dependencies, parental influences, or ‘accidentally triggered’ interest in the hagiography of a particular saint. However, pilgrimage motivations, expectations and experiences are often seen as altogether different matters. …”

"Võõras" usk ja verepatt by Aleksandr Pantšenko

“…Medieval Christian hagiography abounds with stories (the so-called `legends of the Eucharistic miracle') about a pagan or an infidel (most often a Jew or a Saracen) who, wishing to understand the meaning of the Eucharist, comes to a church during liturgy and sees a priest killing an infant, cutting its body apart, and giving the flesh and the blood to the flock. …”
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Topology of the Religious: Text, Memory, Space / Топология религиозного: текст, память, пространство by Nadezhda Gayevskaya / Надежда Зеноновна Гаевская

“…Stolpnichestvo (stylite’s practice) – through the hagiography and the icon – denotes the physical vertical, which represents the topos of the exaltation and spiritual transformation of the temporal into the eternal. …”
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Vernacular literature in eighth- and ninth-century Mercia by Wragg, S

“…The first is the proliferation of vernacular hagiography, both in prose and verse. In the first chapter, I offer an overview of Anglo-Saxon texts connected with the cult of Guthlac, a saint closely connected to the Mercian dynasty in the eighth and ninth centuries. …”

Betti Alver Maksim Gorki „Lapsepõlve“ tõlkijana / Betti Alver as a Maksim Gorky’s “My Childhood” translator by Maria Borovikova

“…The trilogy represented a sort of hagiography of the main Soviet writer, and it was meant to be accessible to any resident of the newly Soviet country in a language they could understand.             …”
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The cycle of St. Demetrius in the Patriarchate of Peć - III by Pajić Sanja R.

“…The walls within which the sacred building is located represent a long-established ideogram for the city, identified as the place of events - Thessaloniki with the Basilica of Saint Demetrius. The hagiography of Saint Demetrius was painted in the nave of the church of the same name in the Patriarchate of Peć, following the practice that prevailed in the 14th century. …”
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Des saints pour la fiction, des saints face à l’Histoire by Aude Bonord

“…De plus, à la fin du siècle, l’hagiographie est sortie du champ littéraire avec la disparition du groupe des écrivains catholiques. …”
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Jezus Chrystus jako model dla postaci Apolloniusza z Tiany by Jacek Sieradzan

“…Author found out 28 analogies in hagiographies of both, and in addition 12 analogies in miracles activity. …”
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Operas, novels, and religious instructions: life-stories of Tibetan Buddhist masters between genre classifications by Roesler, U

“…The present volume contains case-studies of hagiographies from various cultural and religious backgrounds and explores context specific and culturally embedded narrative strategies of religious life-writing. …”

Algunas notas sobre el exorcismo en el occidente latino en la Antigüedad Tardía by Manuel López Campuzano, Rafael González Fernández

“… The purpose of this article is the presentation of information about Exorcism in I he western world during the late antiquity, from the point of view historical - antropological, and based on the ancient clasical authors, especially on the hagiographies. These demostrate the power of the holy man trying to cure the evil which afflicts his social surroundings by means of the exorcism, trying to reintergrate the possesed individual once again into the community using a type of public confession, probably based on the Roman Juridical model. …”
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L’évangile apocryphe selon Mendoza ou l’Odyssée de Pomponio Flato by Claire Vialet Martinez

“…Oscillant entre roman policier, roman historique, roman épistolaire, hagiographie, ce texte s’inspire de tous les textes et plonge le lecteur dans un labyrinthe intertextuel. …”
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I racconti votivi contemporanei: pagine di un continuo liber miraculorum by Vincenzo Spera

“…These votive tales, packed with painted images, photos, installations of various materials, written texts, are compared to the hagiographies of the Saints and exemplary stories which the devotee takes as specimen to present and tell publicly his own story of suffering and salvation. …”
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I racconti votivi contemporanei: pagine di un continuo liber miraculorum by Vincenzo Spera

“…These votive tales, packed with painted images, photos, installations of various materials, written texts, are compared to the hagiographies of the Saints and exemplary stories which the devotee takes as specimen to present and tell publicly his own story of suffering and salvation. …”
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I racconti votivi contemporanei: pagine di un continuo liber miraculorum by Vincenzo Spera

“…These votive tales, packed with painted images, photos, installations of various materials, written texts, are compared to the hagiographies of the Saints and exemplary stories which the devotee takes as specimen to present and tell publicly his own story of suffering and salvation. …”
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The Biblical Theme in the Historical Monographs of Georgy P. Fedotov by Alexey A. Gaponenkov, Alexander S. Tsygankov

“…Fedotov intended to know The Gospel in History, Russian religiosity, exploring it on the material of hagiographies of saints, spiritual poems, folk faith, apocrypha, and prologues. …”
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La esteta, la pedagoga y la sibarita by Marie Estripeaut-Bourjac

“…Si on essaiera d’éviter toute tentative de dithyrambe ou d’hagiographie, les diverses facettes de la valeur d’exemplarité que contenait la personnalité de Marie-Stéphane seront soulignées.…”
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Revenging Vestments: On the Chasubles of the Bishops Ildefonsus and Adaulfus (Toledo and Compostela, Tenth–Twelfth Centuries) by Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez

“…Bonitus of Clermont (620–700), but also in light of the similarities with the miracle of the bishop Adaulfus II of Compostela (ninth century), and the possible late antique inspiration of both from the <i>Libellus Precum</i> and from Gregory of Tours´ hagiographies. The stories that involve Ildefonsus and Adaulfus have strong similarities in the development of their sainthoods and in the importance that is given to liturgical vestments. …”
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Le dévoilement spontané de la Vierge de Guadalupe face à Jean de Dieu : fiction, effraction ou miracle de l’image by Héctor Ruiz Soto

“…Cet article s’intéresse à la fabrique d’un miracle appartenant à l’hagiographie de Jean de Dieu, fondateur d’un ordre Hospitalier, et faisant intervenir la Vierge de Guadalupe, une image hiéronymite qui se dévoile spontanément face à lui. …”
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Katherine Group by Lazikani, A

“…The first three texts (The Martyrdom of Saint Katherine, The Life and Passion of Saint Margaret, and The Life and Passion of Saint Juliana) are “hagiographies,” or saints’ lives. The fourth, Holy Maidenhood, is a treatise encouraging the maintenance of virginity. …”

Linguistics Out of the Closet by Tyler Kibbey

“…In rejecting the notion of linear scientific progression – the humanist notion of progress as forward-facing – this project furthermore seeks to move beyond simple critiques, apologetics, and hagiographies and work toward a true repositioning of the field and a productive reimagination of the discipline. …”
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