Bhl hagiographical biography

The main source for the biography of the hymnographer Andrew of Crete is the vita written by the patrikios and quaestor Niketas.

Abstract This chapter examines the process of the move from biography to hagiography in the developing cults of two fifteenth-century.

Hagiographical studies increasingly attempt to move beyond individual events in order to investigate the "longue durée." Scholars are less concerned about.

The religious life of late Roman Gaul was dominated by Martin of Tours, while his hagiographer was to set the standard guide for later practitioners of the.

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Hagiographical studies increasingly attempt to move beyond individual events in order to investigate the "longue durée." Scholars are less concerned about..

Introduction

Today scholars are paying increased attention to hagiography. From the 1960s on, the number of entries in the sections on the "Vies des saints" in the bibliography of the Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique has more than tripled. The number of journals devoted specifically to hagiography has moved from one to three. Academic societies devoted to the study of hagiography and the saints have been established in the United States and in many European countries.

Hagiographical studies increasingly attempt to move beyond individual events in order to investigate the "longue durée." Scholars are less concerned about reconstructing the history of individual saints, more concerned about hagiographical texts per se, especially about problems relating to the changing needs of authors and audiences. Brilliant articles and monographs on