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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.

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Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), a celebrated Dominican preacher from Valencia, was revered as a living saint during his lifetime, receiving papal canonization within fifty years of his death. In The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby, Laura Ackerman Smoller recounts the fascinating story of how Vincent became the subject of widespread devotion, ranging from the saint's tomb in Brittany to cult centers in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and Latin America, where Vincent is still venerated today. Along the way, Smoller traces the long and sometimes contentious process of establishing a stable image of a new saint.Vincent came to be epitomized by a singularly arresting miracle tale in which a mother kills, chops up, and cooks her own baby, only to have the child restored to life by the saint's intercession. This miracle became a key emblem in the official portrayal of the saint promoted by the papal court and the Dominican order, still haunted by the memory of the Great Schism (1378-1414) that had rent the Catholic Church for nearly forty years. Vincent, however, proved to be a potent religious symbol for others whose agendas did not necessarily align with those of Rome. Whether shoring up the political legitimacy of Breton or Aragonese rulers, proclaiming a new plague saint, or trumpeting their own holiness, individuals imposed their own meanings on the Dominican saint.Drawing on nuanced readings of canonization inquests, hagiography, liturgical sources, art, and devotional materials, Smoller tracks these various appropriations from the time of Vincent's 1455 canonization through the eve of the Enlightenment. In the process, she brings to life a long, raucous discussion ranging over many centuries. The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby restores the voices of that conversation in all its complexity.

Christian hagiography --- History --- Vincent Ferrer, --- Cult --- History. --- Ferrer, Vincent, --- Ferreri, Vincenzo, --- Ferrerius, Vincentius, --- Ferrier, Vincent, --- Vicent Ferrer, --- Vicente Ferrer, --- Vincent Ferrier, --- Vincentius Ferrerius, --- Vincenzo Ferrer,

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Christian hagiography --- Christian saints in literature. --- Christian poetry, French --- Christian saints --- French poetry --- History --- History and criticism. --- Legends --- Cult --- History of doctrines

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"For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré, the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit, he believed, was manifesting itself in the lives of lay and religious people alike. Thomas avidly sought out these new kinds of saints, writing accounts of their lives so that these models of sanctity might astound, teach, and trouble the convictions of his day. In Excessive Saints, Rachel J. D. Smith combines historical, literary, and theological approaches to offer a new interpretation of Thomas's hagiographies, showing how they employ vivid narrative portrayals of typically female bodies to perform theological work in a rhetorically specific way. Written in an era of great religious experimentation, Thomas's texts think with and through the bodies of particular figures: the narrative of the holy person's life becomes a site of theological invention in a variety of registers, particularly the devotional, the mystical, and the dogmatic. Smith examines how these texts represent the lives and bodies of holy women to render them desirable objects of devotion for readers and how particular representations are crafted by Thomas in the service of the church even as he works through his uncertainties about the opportunities and dangers that these emerging forms of holiness present. Excessive Saints is the first book to consider Thomas's narrative craft in relation to his theological projects, offering new visions for the study of theology, medieval Christianity, and medieval women's history"--

Religious studies --- Sociology of religion --- Christian hagiography --- Hagiographers --- Christian women saints --- History and criticism --- Biography --- Thomas, --- History and criticism. --- Thomas de Cantiprato