Hagiography in Byzantium
Subtitle: literature, social history and cult
By: Stephanos Efthymiadis
Series: Variorum collected studies series -- 989; Collected studies -- 989.
Publisher: Ashgate Variorum; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham
Language: eng; fre; gre
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781409430162
Subjects: Christian saints; History and criticism; Christian saints in literature; Sources; Church history; Cult; Christian hagiography; Byzantine Christian literature; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Primarily English text; some Greek text. One contribution is Greek text with parallel French translation.