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Ashgate research companion to Byzantine hagiography
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ISBN: 9781409409519 9780754650331 9781409407249 1409407241 9781409409526 9781472404152 0754650332 1409409511 9781315612799 9781317043942 9781317043959 Year: 2014 Publisher: Farnham: Ashgate,

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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.


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Sonderformen byzantinischer Hagiographie und ihr literarisches Vorbild : Untersuchungen zu den Viten des Äsop, des Philaretos, des Symeon Salos und des Andreas Salos
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ISSN: 09453598 ISBN: 363148528X 9783631485286 Year: 1997 Volume: 3 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,


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Pour une poétique de Byzance : hommage à Vassilis Katsaros
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ISSN: 16378350 ISBN: 9782953065589 295306558X Year: 2015 Volume: 16 Publisher: Paris: Centre d'études byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes,


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Plato in the third sophistic
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ISBN: 9781614510321 1614510326 1614510393 1614519838 9781614510390 Year: 2014 Volume: 50 Publisher: Berlin ; New York Walter de Gruyter

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Plato in the Third Sophistic examines the influence and impact of Plato and Platonism in the era of Byzantine and Christian rhetoric. The volume brings together specially commissioned articles from leading scholars of late antique philosophy and literature. Their examinations show that Plato is the single most important and influential literary figure used to frame the literature of this time. Plato in the Third Sophistic will help scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines to better understand the development of Christian literature in this era as an essential link in the history of Platonism as well as that of Christianity.


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Hagiography in byzantium : literature, social history and cult
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ISBN: 9781409430162 1409430162 9781003554622 Year: 2011 Volume: CS989 Publisher: Farnharm (Surrey): Ashgate/Variorum,

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Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian. The studies reproduced in this volume cover a chronological range from late antiquity to the Paleologan era. They bring together annotated editions of specific texts and discussions of their contexts, complemented by comprehensive surveys of saintly and monastic cult. Having appeared over the last twenty years, they also illustrate and reflect upon the significant development and re-orientation which has marked the study of hagiography in recent decades.


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Saints of ninth- and tenth-century Greece
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ISBN: 9780674237360 0674237366 Year: 2019 Volume: 54 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard university press,

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"Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history--when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar, Slavic, and Arab attacks and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. The bishops of the region provided much-needed leadership and institutional stability, while ascetics established hermitages and faced invaders. The Lives gathered here include accounts of Peter of Argos, which offers insight into episcopal authority in medieval Greece, and Theodore of Kythera, an important source for the history of piracy in the Aegean Sea.This volume, which illustrates the literary variety of saints' Lives, presents Byzantine Greek texts written by locals in the provinces and translated here into English for the first time." --


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Dreaming in Byzantium and beyond
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ISBN: 9781409400554 9781472433053 9781472433060 147243305X 1409400557 1317148150 1317148142 9781315578064 9781317148135 9781317148142 1315578069 1472433068 9781317148159 Year: 2014 Publisher: Farnham: Ashgate,

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Although the actual dreaming experience of the Byzantines lies beyond our reach, the remarkable number of dream narratives in the surviving sources of the period attests to the cardinal function of dreams as vehicles of meaning, and thus affords modern scholars access to the wider cultural fabric of symbolic representations of the Byzantine world. Whether recounting real or invented dreams, the narratives serve various purposes, such as political and religious agendas, personal aspirations or simply an author’s display of literary skill. It is only in recent years that Byzantine dreaming has attracted scholarly attention, and important publications have suggested the way in which Byzantines reshaped ancient interpretative models and applied new perceptions to the functions of dreams. This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate further the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. Linked by this common thread, the essays offer insights into the function of dreams in hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance. They explore gender and erotic aspects of dreams; they examine cross-cultural facets of dreaming, provide new readings, and contextualize specific cases; they also look at the Greco-Roman background and Islamic influences of Byzantine dreams and their Christianization. The volume provides a broad variety of perspectives, including those of psychoanalysis and anthropology.

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