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
Kaldellis (not further identified) and Efthymiadis (social anthropology, U. of the Aegean, Mytilene) contribute to the study of Byzantine provincial society by collecting brief profiles on particular
For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out
Representative of a superlative series published by Ashgate, this companion contains fourteen chapters, written by senior specialists based in Europe and the U.S., surveying the literature and history
A critical edition of the text composed in the 1840s in Medieval Byzantium. It is a representative example of a patriarchal biography which was written to sanctify a patriarch of Constantinople. The
