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Il web costituisce oggi l'agorà in cui una molteplicità di soggetti scambia contenuti multimediali in tempo reale, agendo di volta in volta come produttore, fruitore o semplice "ripetitore". In questa sorta di realtà di secondo grado, parallela al mondo reale, non potevano mancare i contenuti di carattere agiografico, tanto più in un'epoca che è stata definita di "rivincita del sacro": il santo è ancora - o è tornato a essere - elemento vitale nella religiosità contemporanea ed è diventato oggetto di curiosità per una platea più ampia dei soli fedeli o praticanti cattolici. Allo scopo di indagare questa nuova dimensione del sacro risponde il presente volume, spazio di riflessione incentrato non tanto sul mezzo in sé quanto sullo specifico tema dei santi e delle devozioni del mondo contemporaneo, visti attraverso la lente del web.

Christian hagiography --- History.

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Women saints. --- Femininity --- Christian hagiography. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.

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In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints' lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and '20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politically and socially engaged. Further, it became more self-consciously literary and began to feature women more prominently--and not only traditional virgin martyrs but also matrons and contemporary holy women. Winstead shows that this literature placed a premium on scholarship and teaching. Hagiography celebrated educators and scholars more than ever before and became a vehicle for educating readers about Christian dogma. Focusing both on authors well known, such as John Lydgate and Margery Kempe, and on others less known, such as Osbern Bokenham and John Capgrave, Winstead argues that the values promoted by fifteenth-century hagiography helped to shape the reformist impulses that eventually produced the Reformation. Moreover, these values continued to influence post-Reformation hagiography, both Protestant and Catholic, well into the seventeenth century."-- Back cover

Christian hagiography. --- Christian saints --- Historiography. --- 1066-1499 --- England --- Church history

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Unter den Märtyrern des Bilderstreits nimmt die heilige Theodosia von Konstantinopel eine besondere Stelle ein. Ihr Martyrium und ihr Kult erfuhren unter der Herrschaft der byzantinischen Palaiologendynastie (1259-1453) eine außerordentliche Blüte in Hagiografie und Gesellschaft. Im Gegensatz zu den spärlichen Informationen, die aus der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit stammen, stammt aus der Palaiologenzeit eine größere Zahl von Zeugen und Nachrichten über die Heilige, ihre Reliquien und ihre Wundertaten. Neben den rhetorischen Enkomia, die die einfachen Synaxaria ersetzt haben, finden wir Erwähnungen über sie in Geschichtswerken, in der Dichtung und der Hymnografie sowie in den Reiseberichten der russischen Pilger.Kotzabassi untersucht und kommentiert diese Texte ausführlich und bietet auf Basis aller bekannten Handschriften eine kritische Edition dieser Texte, von denen einige zum ersten Mal überhaupt herausgegeben werden.

Christian hagiography. --- Theodosia, --- Byzantium. --- Dynasty of the Palaiologoi (1259-1453). --- Hagiography. --- Hymnography. --- Theodosia of Constantinople.

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The heritage of medieval hagiography, the diverse and voluminous literature devoted to saints, was much more important in nineteenth-century Russia than is often recognized. Although scholars have treated examples of the influence of hagiographic writing on a few prominent Russian writers, Margaret Ziolkowski is the first to describe the vast extent of its impact. Some of the authors she discusses are Kondratii Ryleev, Aleksandr Bestuzhev-Marlinskii, Fedor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Leskov, Gleb Uspenskii, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii, and Maksimilian Voloshin. Such writers were often exposed to saints' lives at an early age, and these stories left a deep impression to be dealt with later, whether favorably or otherwise.Professor Ziolkowski identifies and analyzes the most common usages of hagiographic material by Russian writers, as well as the variety of purposes that inspired this exploitation of their cultural past. Tolstoy, for instance, employed hagiographic sources to attack the organized church and the institution of monasticism. Individual chapters treat the influence of hagiography on the poetry of the Decembrists, reworkings of specific hagiographic legends or tales, and the application of hagiographic conventions and features to contemporary characters and situations.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Christian hagiography. --- Hagiography in literature. --- Christian saints in literature. --- Russian literature --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- History and criticism.