The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography (eBook, ePUB)

Volume I: Periods and Places
Redaktion: Efthymiadis, Stephanos

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in Volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography, and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts, not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317043959
• Artikelnr.: 44873084

Autorenporträt

Stephanos Efthymiadis is Professor at the Open University of Cyprus.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Stephanos Efthymiadis. Part I Genres
Varieties and Forms: Byzantine hagiography and its literary genres. Some critical observations
Martin Hinterberger; Greek passions of the martyrs in Byzantium
Marina Detoraki; Collections of miracles (fifth-fifteenth centuries)
Stephanos Efthymiadis; Collections of edifying stories
André Binggeli; Greek Byzantine hagiography in verse
Stephanos Efthymiadis; Symeon Metaphrastes and the metaphrastic movement
Christian Hÿgel; Synaxaria and the synaxarion of Constantinople
Andrea Luzzi. Part II Hagiography as Literature: The Byzantine hagiographer and his text
Martin Hinterberger; Audience
language and patronage in Byzantine hagiography
Stephanos Efthymiadis - Nikos Kalogeras; Byzantine hagiography and hymnography: an interrelationship
Antonia Giannouli; Fiction and/or novelisation in Byzantine hagiography
Charis Messis; Holy actors and actresses fools and cross-dressers as the protagonists of saints' Lives
Stavroula Constantinou; The literary portrait of Byzantine female saints
Nathalie Delierneux. Part III Hagiography and Society: Economy and society in Byzantine hagiography: realia and methodological questions
Michel Kaplan - Eleonora Kountoura-Galaki; The city in Byzantine hagiography
Helen G. Saradi; The hagiography of doubt and scepticism
Anthony Kaldellis. Indexes.