TY - BOOK ID - 23695466 TI - Ashgate research companion to Byzantine hagiography PY - 2014 SN - 9781409409519 9780754650331 9781409407249 1409407241 9781409409526 9781472404152 0754650332 1409409511 9781315612799 9781317043942 9781317043959 PB - Farnham: Ashgate, DB - UniCat KW - Christian literature, Byzantine KW - Littérature chrétienne byzantine KW - -Christian literature, Byzantine KW - -235.3 <09> KW - 235.3 <03> KW - Hagiografie--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Hagiografie--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken KW - Christian hagiography -- History and criticism. KW - Christian literature, Byzantine -- History and criticism. KW - Christian literature, Byzantine. KW - Littérature chrétienne byzantine KW - Christian hagiography KW - 235.3 <09> KW - Byzantine literature KW - Hagiography, Christian KW - Hagiography KW - History and criticism KW - Hagiografie--Geschiedenis van .. KW - History and criticism. KW - Hagiographie chrétienne KW - Histoire et critique KW - Hagiografie--Geschiedenis van . KW - Hagiografie--Geschiedenis van KW - Christian hagiography - History and criticism KW - Christian literature, Byzantine - History and criticism KW - Hagiographie byzantine UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23695466 AB - Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucial insight to the development of religious thought and practice, social and literary life, and the history of the empire. It emerged in the fourth century with the pioneering Life of St Antony and continued to evolve until the end of the empire in the fifteenth century, and beyond. The appeal and dynamics of this genre radiated beyond the confines of Byzantium, and it was practised also in many Oriental and Slavic languages within the orbit of the broader Byzantine world. This Companion is the work of an international team of specialists and represents the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. It consists of two volumes and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, Medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of the narrative. This first volume covers the authors and texts of the four distinctive periods during which Greek Byzantine hagiography developed, as well as the hagiography produced in Oriental and Slavic languages and in geographical milieux around the periphery of the empire, from Italy to Armenia. Volume II addresses questions of genres and the social and other contexts of Byzantine hagiography. ER -