Umieranie i śmierć w polskojęzycznych drukach prawosławnych z kręgu Akademii Mohylańskiej by Jolanta Klimek-Grądzka

“… DYING AND DEATH IN POLISH LANGUAGE ORTHODOX PRINTED TEXTS AUTHORED BY THE MEMBERS OF KIYV-MOHYLA ACADEMY This article deals with the Polish lexis in the semantic field of DEATH and conceptualizations of death as represented in Orthodox hagiographies and miracula collections. The analysis includes the following three text collections: H. …”
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Ὁ Βίος τοῦ Μάρκου τοῦ Ἀθηναίου (BHG 1039-1041) by Χριστίνα Γ. ΑΓΓΕΛΙΔΗ

“…Dans l'Introduction sont discutés les divers emprunts à l'hagiographie ancienne qui composent la personnalité du saint, la structure du récit, la tradition manuscrite et les principes de l'établissement du texte; en appendice, quelques remarques sur le temps de la narration.…”
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The Transit of Mary Magdalene’s Soul in Catalan Artistic Production in the 15th Century by Elena Monzón Pertejo

“…To test this, comparative analyses have been made of the visual representation of the two women and also of the textual sources, such as the canonical and extracanonical gospels, a variety of medieval legends and different hagiographies or <i>vitas</i> and sermons from the period.…”
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Einhard’s Vita Karoli Magni: Dialogue with Classical Genre by Maria R. Nenarokova

“…His biography was compiled according to the three-part scheme, typical of hagiographies.…”
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Islam and Tibet : interactions along the musk routes / by Akasoy, Anna, Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.), Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit

Kvinnligt och manligt – skilda estetiska gestaltningsprinciper by Lennart Karlsson

“…. – For both men and women humility was a valued Christian virtue, but particularly suited for the weaker sex. In hagiographies, men are sometimes represented as meek and humble, but in pictorial art they are often rendered as quite arrogant. …”
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La poesía religiosa al servicio de la pintura: lecturas contrarreformistas en torno a san Cristóbal by Alejandro Jaquero Esparcia

“…L'hagiographie et l'iconographie de saint Christophe ont suscité de nombreuses controverses, surtout au plan théorique, en raison des effets que provoque sa représentation : un être aux proportions colossales dans un espace sacré. …”
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Análisis y funcionalidad de la Vita Aemiliani (BHL 100) by Francisco Javier LOMAS SALMONTE

“…Millán de la Cogolla by means of a study of the specific hagiographie work personalized in its author, Braulio of Saragossa, a distinguished and respected representative of powerful.This "Vita" shows the opposition between the contemplative life, paradise, and the active life, earthliness, thus rousing exemplary Christian behavior in the readers, but also extolling monastic life as a rural rather than urban phenomenon, as well as a breeding ground for many of the prelates of Visigothic Hispania.…”
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Considerations about the ‘right to a biography’: Saints and intellectuals in contemporary culture by Jenny Ponzo

“…This notion is apparently applicable only to hagiographies seen as part of a mechanism of stabilization by which the dominating religious culture tames the explosive potential of the saintly figure. …”
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SACRED PROTECTORS IN THE OLD REALM OF ROMANIAN IMAGINATION – SAINT PARASCHEVA by Laura Bădescu

“…The common system of tracing the origins of the most widespread literary types – homilies, hagiographies, folk novels, chronographies, etc. – as well as the specific conditions of reception in ancient times has allowed the moving of the characters from one genre to another, without forcing the limits of plausibility required by certain reading habits and precarious scientific information. …”
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Domestic animals as symbols and attributes in Christian iconography: some examples from Croatian sacral art by A. Škrobonja, I. Kontošić, J. Bačić, V. Vučevac-Bajt, A. Muzur, V. Golubović

“…The source of knowledge was literature dealing with hagiographies of saints, sacral iconography and liturgy along with visiting churches, monasteries and museums throughout Croatia. …”
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Analyse d’une chanson de tradition orale : articulation entre poétique et imaginaire by Brigitte Charnier

“…Face à l’originalité de la complainte, celui‑ci est vite apparu comme réducteur et ce n’est qu’à travers l’étymologie, l’hagiographie et l’onomastique qu’il a été possible d’affiner les analyses et de proposer une interprétation herméneutique.…”
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Romancing the Ghost Story: Reading The Romance of Partenay and Sir Launfal as Medieval Ghost Stories by Pınar Taşdelen

“…There are accounts of supernatural events and characters in various medieval works such as ballads, dream-vision poems, hagiographies, and romances. However, among all, ghost stories become prominent with their wide range of supernatural instances and characters. …”
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Cultivating the heart: suffering and language in Ancrene Wisse, the Wooing Group, and the Katherine Group by Lazikani, A

“…The chapter assesses: the anchoress’ spectatorship in the Katherine Group hagiographies, a spectatorship based on defamiliarization; the anchoress’ participation with the pain of Christ in Ancrene Wisse and the Wooing Group, including an examination of her potential use of church wall paintings; and the female reader of Hali Meiðhad, who immerses herself in the suffering of a married and child-bearing woman. …”

Aspects of Medieval Japanese Religion by Bernard R. Faure, Andrea Castiglioni

“…Its purpose is to expand the interpretative boundaries of medieval Japanese religion beyond Buddhism by emphasizing the importance of mountain asceticism (Shugendō), Yin and Yang (Onmyōdō) rituals, medical and soteriological practices, combinatory paradigms between local gods and Buddhist deities (medieval Shintō), hagiographies, religious cartography, conflations between performative arts and medieval Shintō mythologies, and material culture. …”
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Domestic religious pilgrimage in Ethiopia: Validating Ethiopian orthodox Tewahido church monasteries sacredness through the name of Jerusalem and its significance by Solomon Molla Ademe

“…By taking Debre-Libanos Monastery (DLM) and Gishen Debre Kerbe (GDK) as the litmus tests, this study shows that religious promises (Qalikidanoch) written in hagiographies and other writings of the EOTC are the main ways for validating and authenticating Ethiopian monasteries sacredness. …”
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Diachronie du narratif religieux dans le discours romanesque français du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle by Jacques BARRO

“…Certes, le Moyen Âge des hagiographies et des guerres saintes constitue une période où le narratif religieux célébrait les vertus de la religion dans toute sa splendeur, avec un fanatisme et une dévotion remarquables. …”
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Muddy waters: political tensions and identity in the writings of Xu Wei (1521-1593) by Luper, E

“…His wild ink-brush paintings, mental instability, numerous suicide attempts and the murder of this third wife all helped to consolidate Xu's image as China's Van Gogh. However, later hagiographies of Xu as the "patron saint of eccentrics" have led to a one dimensional view of Xu.…”

Nostra Signora di Bonaria tra Sardegna, Spagna e Argentina. Genesi, evoluzione e diffusione dell’iconografia / Our Lady of Bonaria among Sardinia, Spain and Argentina. Origin, evol... by Sara Caredda

“…At the same time, this study is based on the analysis of archival documents and hagiographies, exploring the relationship between the iconography and the cult.…”
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A critical edition of Lope de Vega's 'San Nicolás de Tolentino' with an introductory study by Norton, R

“…My comparison of Lope’s Nicolás with the saint depicted in the hagiographies casts into relief techniques Lope used to prevent this prodigious miracle-worker from alienating the audience. …”