Venerating saints and constructing cults in an age of reform: male and female monastic communities and their saints in late tenth- and early eleventh-century England by Braund, S

“…Litanies, calendars, prayerbooks, and Latin and vernacular hagiographical collections attest to a remarkable and devoted interest in the saints of Christian history in this period. …”

Wall paintings in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of Christ Lover of Mankind in Zhovkva. History of the absidal scene of The Ascension of Our Lord and its iconographic analysis... by Maciej Ireneusz Orzechowski

“…These are supplemented by two additional themes, the hagiographical and the historical. New elements (apart from the updated historical scenes) include the representations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the most intriguing of which are the absidal image of Christ the Pantocrator with a heart in his bosom in the scene of The Ascension of Our Lord. …”
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Quelle couleur pour les frères ? Regards sur l’habit des Mineurs aux xiiie-xive siècles by Véronique Rouchon Mouilleron

“…It may be surprising to study the colour of the first Minorites clothing, since neither the Franciscan rule nor the hagiographical writings nor any of the first written accounts show any interest in this element of their clothing. …”
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The Gǝʿǝz Manuscripts Collection from the Monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon (Abunä Abrǝham, Tǝgray, Ethiopia) by Hagos Abrha Abay

“…Seventy-two Gǝʿǝz manuscripts, most of which of hagiographical and liturgical genre, are kept in the church. …”
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The Images of War in the Byzantine Historical Literature of the 10th Century: Nikephoros Ouranos by Karina R. Kapsalykova

“…The historical sources of the present research include the Tactics, hagiographical essay Theodorus tiro Vita et martyrium (BHG 1762m), as well as Nikephoros Ouranos’s correspondence. …”
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Schrift- und Schreibmystik. Christina von Hane by Kirakosian, R

“…<p>The subject of my thesis is a little-studied hagiographical work that gives important insights into rewriting processes and their significance in medieval textual culture. …”

The secular liturgical office in late medieval England by Cheung Salisbury, M, Matthew Cheung Salisbury

“…Other features of these service books, even within the sources of the same Use, are subject to significant variation, influenced by local customs and hagiographical and textual priorities, and also by varying reception to liturgical prescriptions from ecclesiastical authorities. …”

Deacon Oleshka Pavlov and Bookwriting in Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery in the First Half of the 15th Century by Shibaev Mikhail A.

“…The analysis of the acts and the hagiographical texts allows to reconstruct the biography of the scriber and to come to the conclusion, that the deacon of the parish temple Oleshka had not got the direct connection with Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, he lived outside, in Feodosjin town with his father, priest Pavel. …”
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The Gǝʿǝz Manuscripts Collection from the Monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon (Abunä Abrǝham, Tǝgray, Ethiopia) by Hagos Abrha Abay

“…Seventy-two Gǝʿǝz manuscripts, most of which of hagiographical and liturgical genre, are kept in the church. …”
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Arpadian Royal Cult in the Zagreb Cathedral: From Gothic to Baroque by Danko Šourek

“…Departing from the ingrained medieval hagiographical sources, the later cycle arguably reflects the 17th-century development in Croatian political and historiographic ideas by introducing some new iconographical motives as well as re-using some of the old ones.…”
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Anglo-Scandinavian literature and the post-conquest period by Parker, E

“…The first chapter discusses some narratives about the reign of Cnut in later sources, including the Encomium Emmae Reginae, hagiographical texts by Goscelin and Osbern of Canterbury, and the Liber Eliensis; it is argued that they share certain thematic concerns with the literature known to have been produced at Cnut’s court.  …”

Soldiering for Christ: the role of the Miles Christi in four Old English Saints’ lives by Cahilly-Bretzin, G

“…Medieval hagiographers associated each of these saints with literal as well as spiritual warfare and appear to have used the saint’s association with warrior culture to define Christianity’s relationship to a martial ethos. …”

Anchoritic prayer in time: enclosure and encounter, c. 1080-1350 by Smith, A

“…Chapter Three considers how prayer functions in and through hagiographical texts for and about recluses, identifying a central concern with enclosure as the means to the reader’s desired prayerful encounter.…”

The Austin Friars in pre-Reformation English society by Laferriere, A

“…By examining how the Austins formulated their origins story in a distinctly English context, this thesis argues that the hagiographical writings of the Austin Friars regarding Augustine of Hippo, whom they claimed as their putative founder, had profound consequences for their religious platform. …”

Representation of the Iconoclast Emperors in the Byzantine Offices in Honour of the Confessors of Iconoduly by Tatiana Senina

“…On the whole, this corresponds to the picture that can be seen in the iconodule literature of other genres, primarily in hagiographical texts. Hymnographic texts were constantly used during public worship and reached the ears of the wide masses of believers; therefore they have significant contributed to the spreading of a number of legends about icon-worshipers and iconoclasts and to the formation of the image of the iconoclastic era in the minds of the Byzantines.…”
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Sobre el trasfondo social de la predicación mendicante en Castilla y León (siglo XIII) by Javier Pérez-Embid Wamba

“…Tha Castilian Dominican structures “ex­empla” that he took from his legendary hagiographical work in such orden that more emphasis falls on education of the clergy and less in the world of laymen. …”
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St. Maximus the Greek (Mihail Trivolis, Arta, ca. 1470–Maksim Grek, Moscow, 1556): The Insight into His Personal Euchology by Neza Zajc

“…Maxim’s defence of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition was accomplished by the special guidance of the Holy Spirit as his personal internal principle that he used not only in the prayer (hesychastic, ascetical) and in the theological works (hagiographical, liturgical), but also in the philological works (of editing, translating, redacting), and especially in the exegetical texts. …”
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VARIETÀ IN CONTATTO IN UN MANOSCRITTO SECENTESCO DI NOVARA DI SICILIA by Rita Pina Abbamonte

“…Languages in contact in a seventeenth-century manuscript from Novara di Sicilia This paper features a detailed description and analysis of a seventeenth-century hagiographical manuscript, Vita di suor Cristina da Gesù, written in one of the Gallo-Italic dialects of Sicily, which had a very modest written elaboration. …”
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El poder de la Iglesia imperial: el mito de Costantino y el papado romano by Ramón TEJA

“…<br /><br />SUMMARY: The historical shape of the emperor Constantine changed into a hagiographical myth by apologists such as Lactancio or Eusebio of Cesárea during the emperor life and, particularly, afterwards. …”
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Il tardoantico in Italia: lellia cracco ruggnini e la sua scuola by Rita LIZZI TESTA

“…Since her first book on Northern Italy during the lVth-VIth centuries was published, she has paid fresh attention to local and regional history, for which she used all kind of valuable sources: archeological remains, epigraphic and numismatic evidence, christian literature, even hagiographical tales. The life during Late Antiquity of many italian towns (Pavia, Milano, Aquileia, Concordia, Vicenza, Torino, Venezia, Bergamo) is now better known thanks to her studies. …”
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