Ashgate research companion to Byzantine hagiography
Subtitle: volume I: periods and places
By: [edited by] Stephanos Efthymiadis
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754650331; 9781409407249
Subjects: Christian hagiography; History and criticism; Byzantine Christian literature
Other titles: Research companion to Byzantine hagiography
Description: "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 after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social landscapes, and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.