Oblicza śmierci człowieka w myśli Sulpicjusza Sewera by Józef Pochwat

“…In this way, Sulpicius brings in a new style of writing, hagio­graphic literature where though God is the most important, the reader gets the impression that the central figure is a saint. …”
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The Shaykh and the Others - Sufi Perspectives on Jews and Christians in Late Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Egypt by Giuseppe Cecere

“…This paper focuses on Sufi attitudes towards Jews and Christians in Late Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Egypt, as reflected in hagiographic literature of the time. This will shed further light on interfaith relations in a society where Jews and Christians lived under Islamic rule in the condition of ahl al-dhimma (lit. …”
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Served on a Plate: Engraved Sources of San Diego de Alcalá’s ‘Miraculous Meal’ for the Franciscans of Santiago, Chile (ca. 1710) by Catherine Burdick

“…Commissioned from Cusco by the Franciscans of Santiago, the status of the hagiographic cycle as the most extensive ever produced on the subject of this missionary saint dictates that a multiplicity of sources was necessary for its creation. …”
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Thomas Aquinas’ definition of the imago Dei and the development of lifelike portraiture  by Dominic Olariu

“…It also refers to contemporary practices in rituals and hagiographic believes to show the relevance of these ideas outside the strictly philosophical and theoretical sphere. …”
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Color in Medieval Castle Architecture in Present-Day Poland and Czech Republic by Dagmara Adamska, Przemysław Nocuń, Tomasz Ratajczak, František Záruba

“…We discuss the identified iconographic programs and their chivalric, heraldic, and hagiographic motifs. Within the scope of our discussion are late forms of floral decorations, known as “green chambers”. …”
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Библейски топоси за изобразяване на жени-светици в южнославянските литератури през Средновековието... by Радослава [Radoslava] Станкова [Stankova]

“…The article deals with the specific nature of female sanctity in hagiographic and hymnographic texts of South Slavonic literatures, examining texts dedicated to St. …”
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“Not Flogged for Christ”: Representation of Anti-Iconoclastic Resistance in the Lives of St. Ioannikios the Great and St. Peter of Atroa by Tatyana A. Senina (nun Kassia)

“…The analysis of sources shows that monk Peter, the first biographer of Ioannikios, sought to present his life as an alternative model of Orthodox behaviour during persecutions, a model that is equal to the open confession of the Studites and their followers who had been flogged for worshipping the icons. In contrast, hagiographer Sabas tried to reconcile the positions of Bithynian monks and the Studites, making Peter of Atroa an intermediary figure standing between the two groups.…”
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Lineages as Network: A Study of Chan Genealogy in the <i>Zutang ji</i> 祖堂集 Using Social Network Analysis by Laurent Van Cutsem

“…The study further highlights possible irregularities in lineage claims by contrasting metrics of degree and betweenness centrality with features of the text (e.g., number of hagiographic entries, length of the entries).…”
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Hongzan’s Maitreya Belief in the Context of Late Imperial Chinese Monastic Revival and Chan Decline by Xing Wang

“…Hongzan’s personal anti-Chan sentiment and his intention to reestablish the study and practice of Buddhist Vinaya disciplines in a time of alleged “crisis” of Chinese Buddhism strongly influenced how he composed and transcribed eminent monks’ biographies related to the cult of Maitreya and Tuṣita Heaven. A “hagiographic” reading of Hongzan’s miracle tale collections is necessary to understand his religious discourse in this special historical stage in China.…”
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Radical Succession: Hagiography, Reform, and Franciscan Identity in the Convent of the Abbess Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534) by Pablo Acosta-García

“…Finally, I address the passages in which the hagiographer(s) discuss(es) the sense of belonging to the Franciscan order rather than the Dominicans, and the mystical figure of Francesco d’Assisi as a founder, guide, and exemplar.…”
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Christian Reminiscences in Live Speech (in Old Believers’ Subdialects of Prikamye) by I. A. Podyukov

“…The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that the Old Believers actively used references to the biblical, hagiographic and apocryphal texts. Book inclusions are endowed with worldview and didactic meanings; they express an analogy between the facts of Christian history and the phenomena of real life. …”
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Femmes mystiques, femmes fondatrices : Marie du Bienheureux Amédée (1610-1670) et Antea Gianetti (1577-1630) by Elisabetta Lurgo

“…At the court of Victor Amadeus I of Savoy, one appreciates her qualities of healer and her spirit of prophecy; according to her hagiographer, she acted as ambassador of the dukes of Savoy between the courts of Mantua, Modena, Florence, Milan and Rome. …”
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«Lo Credo en romant»: una versione provenzale del Credo dal ms. Firenze, BML, Ashburnham 105. Edizione, traduzione, commento by Sonia Maura Barillari

“…Many of the works contained therein are of a hagiographic or devotional nature: among the latter, the Provençal versions of three ‘customary’ prayers – the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Creed – are of particular interest, due to the tenacious resistance of the ecclesiastical hierarchies of the Romance-speaking countries to the possibility of allowing lay people to recite these prayers in their vernacular. …”
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Louis Pasteur: Between Myth and Reality by Jean-Marc Cavaillon, Sandra Legout

“…Analysis of his laboratory notebooks has allowed historians to discern the differences between the legend built by his hagiographers and reality. In this review, we revisit his career, his undeniable achievements, and tell the truth about a hero who made every effort to build his own fame.…”
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Motif “homecoming” in the Story of Tatyana Gladkikh “Bird of God” by O. N. Alexandrova-Osokina

“…It is revealed that the hero of the story embodies the “hagiographic” type of world attitude, which manifests itself in a sense of universality with all living things, love, compassion. …”
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“I Carve You, Keeper of My Soul and My Writings, on My Seal...” by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Alekseenko

“…There is not much data saved in annals of Byzantine history, including church sources, on the general background of hagiographic information about church figures, in particular about the clergymen of provincial dioceses, were. …”
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The very marrow of the national idea: The Frontier Wars and the Australian curriculum by Alison Bedford, Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley, Daniel Maddock

“…Schools largely taught British and European history, an approach grounded in a hagiographic treatment of European settlement and the nation’s experience of foreign wars. …”
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Sample of one: joining the queue by Zeitlyn, D

“…I also consider three contrasting approaches to writing life stories: those of the anthropologist as ghostwriter, as hagiographer and as biographer.</p> <p>The main concern of this book is how to understand the ways in which Mambila people talk about themselves and the past. …”

The “necessary death” of the Grand Duke: on the question of the causes and circumstances of the death of Yaroslav Vsevolodovich in the autumn of 1246 by Vorotyntsev L.V., Galimov T.R.

“…Research materials: The research draws from a complex of Russian chronicle sources, monuments of ”hagiographic” literature from Ancient Rus’, Plano Carpini’s “The History of the Mongols,” Rashid al-Din’s “The Collection of Chronicles,” Juvayni Ata-Malik’s “The History of the Conqueror of the World,” and acts of diplomatic correspondence. …”
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Algunas consideraciones sobre la predicación medieval a partir de la hagiografía mendicante by Angeles García de la Borbolla

“…Otherwise, these orders created their own hagiographic production, frequently written in Romanic languages and in a low liturgical level; these works contributed to consolidate the main character’s fame for sanctity, and also had an important peda­gogical and catechetical dimension. …”
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