On the Sources for the “Life of Alexander of Svir”: The Chapter “About the Person Who Wrote the Life of the Saint” by Natalia V. Pak

“…Now we have reason to believe that Alexander of Svir’s hagiographer was not ruled only by patriotic or genre considerations, and that he was not an imitator of Pachomius. …”
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De la mort à la fabrique du saint dans l’Éthiopie médiévale et moderne by Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Marie-Laure Derat

“…The episodes surrounding the death of a saint are described that mark stages in recognizing sainthood and establishing a place of worship and pilgrimage. Hagiographic accounts are the main sources of information for the medieval and modern periods about the stakes in each of the episodes described; they also establish de facto a model for the making of a saint. …”
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Friday veneration among Syriac Christians: The witness of the Story of the Holy Friday by Minov, S

“…This article contains the original unpublished Syriac text of the Story of the Holy Friday, an anonymous hagiographic composition that promotes an idiosyncratic form of Friday veneration, which demands that Christians refrain from work on that day completely. …”

'A learned man and a patriot': the reception Of Cicero in the early imperial period by Sillett, A

“…The section concludes that the world of declamation was the prime motor for the hagiographic treatments of Cicero that was noted in the later historical accounts of his death.…”

Symeon Stylites the Younger and his cult in context: hagiography and society in sixth- to seventh-century Byzantium by Parker, LAR

“…It argues that any hagiographic text can only be understood through an appreciation of both its particular historical context and of developments in the genre over time. …”

St Mildrith or the monastic life against all odds in Goscelin's Vita Deo dilectae virginis Mildrethae by Alenka Divjak

“…The emphasis of the paper is on the examination of a limited number of hagiographic elements which stress most pointedly Mildrith's associations with monasticism and which are viewed in the broader perspective of Anglo-Saxon female sanctity.…”
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Mirrors of Reform. Individuality, Prophecy and Power in Two Renaissance Women by Eleonora Cappuccilli

“…Drawing on the methodology of modern history and history of concepts and referring to the analyses of the hagiographic tale, of the relationship with political power, of reform ideas and of the representation of individuality, the essay aims to contribute to the debate on women and Reformation/reform.…”
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Escenas de la vida de Santo Domingo de Guzmán by María Jesús Baquero Martín

“…This piece of art tells us of Santo Domingos’ symbolic image, created from the hagiographic literature and artistic expressions in the Middle Age, "each one in its language, its treasures and limits, and in them lives its beautifulness, its ability to suggest and allow us dreaming or enjoying ourselves".…”
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‘Imagining’ Babylon - geography and hagiography in St Sava of Serbia’s middle eastern itinerary by Savić Aleksandar Z.

“…The article presents a new hypothesis on how this segment of Sava’s itinerary was (re)constructed on the literary plane, i. e. how the perspective of his hagiographer, a hieromonk of the Hilandar monastery, was influenced and shaped by geographical knowledge, personal experience, and finally, by the general conventions of the vita genre.…”
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Byzantine People’s Anthropology. The Force of the Foot And Its Reflection in the Life of St. Theodore Sikeot by Nikolay Dmitrievich Barabanov

“…Presumably, the described action reflected not only the individual attitude of the hagiographer but also an attitude of the audience, to which it was addressed. …”
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Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger by Parker, L

“…Yet the text possesses considerable historical interest as evidence for the contested development of a cult, as a literary composition with a unique structure, and as the Life of a holy woman who was neither a martyr nor a nun. Martha’s hagiographer eschews most traditional emphases of the Lives of female saints, such as celibacy and asceticism, presenting instead an original, inclusive vision of piety focused on participation in liturgy and the sacraments.…”

Nursing Enlightenment and a Grudge—Reinventing the Medieval Virgin’s Benevolent Breasts by Cristina M. Guardiola-Griffiths

“…A final consideration will be given to a particular image of Marian lactation, which represents the hagiographic legend of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153).…”
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Le corps souffrant de Rifqâ, sainte maronite du xixe siècle by Chantal Verdeil

“…For the Catholic Church, she is today the holy patron of all the suffering people. The hagiographic books that relate her life show the Catholic Church’s conception of the pain and of the illness. …”
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Lost in translation. An Evagrian term in the different versions of the Historia monachorum in Aegypto by Tóth, P

“…The <i>Historia Monachorum in Aegypto</i> (HMA) is one of the most important hagiographic sources for Egyptian monasticism of the late fourth century. …”

Sancti Viatores: Predicaciones, visiones, apariciones y traslado de reliquias en Andalucía (siglos V-XVII) by Andrea Mariana Navarro

“…Hagiographic studies have turned their attention to a particular type of homo viator: saints. …”
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Syrie James’s The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë: A Neo-Victorian Biofiction of Pride and Prejudice by Didac Llorens-Cubedo

“…It is a neo-Victorian celebrity biofiction, tending to the hagiographic. It draws on various biographies of Brontë, on her letters and on her autobiographical novels. …”
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The Elisha Stories as Saint’s Legends by Yael Shemesh

“…Rather, the Elisha cycle in toto constitutes the oldest example in Jewish literature of hagiographic stories. All the stories (including the longer ones, in some of which modern scholarship tends to find a vein of criticism directed against Elisha) express adoration for the holy man of God–Elisha, the miracle worker.…”
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Bektashi-traditionen – en folkelig sufisme? by Emil B.H. Saggau

“…The first part analyzes the trends and religio-sociological components of Sufism and folk culture in the early Bektashi hagiographic text, Velayetname, and in the younger Bektashi textbook, Makalat. …”
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Oh, Vladimir, King of Dioclea, Hard Headed, Heart Full of Pride!” Isaiah Berlin and Nineteenth Century Interpretations of the Live of Saint Vladimir of Dioclea by Stefan Trajković Filipović

“…The Life represents a developed hagiographic narrative with two main lessons – the value of (Saint Vladimir’s) martyrdom (following the model of Christ’s Passion) and of divine punishment awaiting the sinners. …”
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Writing and Worship in Deng Zhimo’s <i>Saints Trilogy</i> by Noga Ganany

“…This article focuses on the textual hybridity of Deng Zhimo’s hagiographic <i>Saints Trilogy</i> and argues that it offers encyclopedic, practical, and entertaining guidebooks for worshipping the three immortals and pursuing Daoist attainment. …”
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