The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography

Volume II: Genres and Contexts
Herausgeber: Efthymiadis, Stephanos

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Produktbeschreibung

For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 168mm x 241mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 904g
• ISBN-13: 9780367570590
• ISBN-10: 0367570599
• Artikelnr.: 66684846

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.