The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Volume II: Genres and Contexts Efthymiadis Stephanos
The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Volume II: Genres and Contexts Efthymiadis Stephanos For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many…
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Volume II: Genres and Contexts Efthymiadis Stephanos
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 selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social landscapes, and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. 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 book is the work of an international group of experts in the 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 End and the Death: Volume II