La «Passion de Saint Adrian» de Jean Miélot by Martina Crosio

“…The contextualization of this text as part of Miélot production also makes possible to sketch a rapid assessment of his hagiographic corpus.…”
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De Didot (an III) à Laboulaye (1879) : l’avènement philosophique de Montesquieu by Catherine Volpilhac-Auger

“…At the end of the 18th century, the publication of Montesquieu’s works remained either a controversial issue (see the anonymous “remarques” of Luzac in 1759 and Didot, 1795, who purported to be inspired by Helvetius) or a hagiographic one, such as the Plassan edition (1796-1797). …”
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The Things That Mark an Apostle by Jaap Doedens

“…Or do we have to conclude that contemporaries of the apostle paint a more or less hagiographic picture of Paul’s miraculous activities? …”
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Arachnophobia and early English literature by Cavell, M

“…One of this article’s aims is to address this question, by surveying the background to and instances of spider imagery in Old and early Middle English, with reference to biblical, medical, philosophical, penitential, homiletic, hagiographic, and bestiary texts.…”

Tear-language: weeping as resistance in Islamic and Christian contemplative hagiography by Lazikani, A

“…Women's weeping forms the basis for a powerful, resistive discourse in medieval Christian and Islamic hagiographic modes. This is keenly evident in Abū ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān as-Sulamī's (d. 1021) Dhikr an-Niswa al-Mutaʿabbidāaṣ-ṣūfiyyāt (Remembrances of Women Sufi Devotees), Abū al Faraj ibn al-Jawzī's (d. 1201) Ṣifat as-Ṣafwa (The Features of the Elect), and Jacques de Vitry's (c. 1170–1240) Vita Mariæ Oigniacensis (Life of Marie d’Oignies). …”

Tears for Fears: Alienation and Authority in the World of Benedict of Aniane by Frances Murray, Rutger Kramer

“…As presented by the contemporary hagiographer Ardo, the tears, rather than denoting any kind of ‘abnormal’ behaviour, were among the first external signs of this conversion. …”
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The Cult of the Underworld in Singapore: Mythology and Materiality by Dean Koon Lee Wang

“…Myths provide hagiographic and iconographic accounts of the gods, which shape rituals that are performed in cults associated with these gods. …”
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De stand van de geschiedschrijving van de Nederlandse politieke partijen by G. Voerman

“…This approach, in which society is vertically segregated in pillars, was deeply hagiographic and one-sided in nature. In order to inspire their supporters, any achievements gained were set against the background of the higher ideals that these liberating movements strove to realise. …”
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Photographs and Archaeological Knowledge by Sudeshna Guha

“…Visual histories also highlight the mutation of the so-called ‘colonialist’ historiography within the post-colonial histories of archaeology’s developments, and encourage us to go beyond the hackneyed formulations of colonial legacies and the hagiographic literature of individual practitioners.…”

From “Plain Abe” to Mythical Mr. Lincoln. Constructing various representational modes of a screen icon by Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris

“…Lincoln and John Cromwell’s 1940 Abe Lincoln in Illinois which inscribed on screen a certain hagiographic and melodramatic vein and had a long-lasting effect on the inscription of President Lincoln on screen? …”
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Nāth Yogīs’ Encounters with Islam by Véronique Bouillier

“…This article will focus on two levels where this lack of concern for encompassing religious labels manifests: the doctrinal vernacular texts and the Nāth hagiographic tradition. A surprising text edited under the name of ‘Mohammad Bodh’ by contemporary Nāth authorities will be presented. …”
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Rider’s Legend in the Development of Vámoš´s Prose Work). by Vladimír Barborík

“…In the interpretation of the novelette of Vámoš , the author of the study observes changes of the genre of legend in the modern Slovak prose. The former hagiographic context of the legend was transformed into a form of irony and parody, influenced also by “lower” forms of oral tradition. …”
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The Seal of Dignity of Archbishop Olav of Nidaros (1350–1370). Reflections on its Iconography and Cultural Context by Guðrún Harðardóttir

“…The great seal of Olav was innovative at the time in Norway. It was hagiographic with a suppliant bishop’s figure. It contained rich micro-architectural elements, and heraldry now formed part of the imagery of the seal. …”
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Media and the Sacralization of Leaders and Events: The Construction of a Religious Public Sphere by Coman Mihai

“…Journalists accomplish this by setting events and leaders within the symbolic frame specific to religion: within this framework, those who report the facts are using narratives close to hagiographic stories, and by this, they are accomplishing the sacralization of these events. …”
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Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire by Pierre LANNOY

“…The article then details four memorial channels by which the Beetle is given a history : a hagiographic channel, in which it becomes an object of passion, being unique in the automotive history ; an academic channel, in which it is seized as an object of research calling for epistemologically founded interpretations ; a political channel, in which the Beetle calls for moral judgments on the part of culturally situated individuals ; an iconic channel, transforming it in a semiotic object feeding aesthetic interpretations. …”
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ROMAN SPECTACLES BUILDINGS AS A SETTING FOR MARTYRDOM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN THE CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE by Jordina Sales Carbonell

“…Although this ludic substrate is not the only factor to be considered, it’s the one that allowed the hagiographers composing stories —some with more historical veracity than others— with architectural settings charged with symbolism, where the victory of the martyrs as “athletes of Christ” was equated to the victory in secular games. …”
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Five Anastasiae and Two Febroniae: A Guided Tour in the Maze of Anastasia Legends. Part One. The Oriental Dossier by Basil Lourié

“…In this epoch, a new avatar of St Anastasia was created, the Roman Virgin, whose Passio was written on the basis of Syriac hagiographic documents. The cult of this second Anastasia was backed by Monothelite Syrians, whereas the fifth-century cult of Anastasia in Constantinople was backed by the Goths. …”
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Shifts in Kabīr Contexts and Texts from Mughal to Modern Times by Bangha, I

“…Divine names, the importance of the guru and hagiographic details were particularly contested aspects of the padas.…”

Legal realities of the Golden Horde Crimea through the eyes of foreign contemporaries by Roman Pochekaev

“…The article is an analysis of specific status of the Crimea as a part of the Golden Horde and as it was reflected in the contemporary sources: notes of travelers, diplomats, merchants, missionaries, etc., correspondence of rulers, historical chronicles and hagiographic works based the information of eye-witnesses. …”
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A Study of Historical and Biographical Readings of Hafezâs Sonnets by T Malmir, H Dehghani

“…To overcome this problem, scholars either have accepted the cliches of the hagiographers and tried to interpret his poems in the light of those sayings, or they have read Hafez's lines as records of his life and times. …”
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