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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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration and Citation; Abbreviations; Contributors; Maps; Introduction; PART I: GENRES, VARIETIES AND FORMS; 1 Byzantine Hagiography and its Literary Genres. Some Critical Observations; 2 Greek Passions of the Martyrs in Byzantium; 3 Collections of Miracles (Fifth-Fifteenth Centuries); 4 Collections of Edifying Stories; 5 Greek Byzantine Hagiography in Verse; 6 Symeon Metaphrastes and the Metaphrastic Movement; 7 Synaxaria and the Synaxarion of Constantinople; PART II: HAGIOGRAPHY AS LITERATURE; 8 The Byzantine Hagiographer and his Text.
- 9 Audience, Language and Patronage in Byzantine Hagiography10 Byzantine Hagiography and Hymnography: An Interrelationship; 11 Fiction and/or Novelisation in Byzantine Hagiography; 12 Holy Actors and Actresses Fools and Cross-Dressers as the Protagonists of Saints' Lives; 13 The Literary Portrait of Byzantine Female Saints; PART III: HAGIOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY; 14 Economy and Society in Byzantine Hagiography: Realia and Methodological Questions; 15 The City in Byzantine Hagiography; 16 The Hagiography of Doubt and Scepticism; General Index; Index of Greek Words; Manuscript Index.