The Ashgate research companion to Byzantine hagiography. Volume 2, Genres and contexts / edited by Stephanos Efthymiades.

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 de...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Efthymiades, Stephanos
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014.
Series:	Ashgate research companion.
Subjects:	Hagiography. Byzantine Empire > Religion. Hagiography Religion Byzantine Empire