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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| Language: | English |
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Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont :
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2014.
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| Series: | Ashgate research companion.
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| Summary: | 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 f. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (537 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409409526 140940952X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 5, 2014). |