Introduction / Sergey Minov and Flavia Ruani -- Part I. Texts as Literature: 1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiographies / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent -- 2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Me…
"Chapters gathered in Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explore a wide range of Syriac hagiographical works, while following two complementary methodological approaches, i.e. literary and cultic, or formal and functional. Grouped into three main sections, these contributions …
"Chapters gathered in Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explore a wide range of Syriac hagiographical works, while following two complementary methodological approaches, i.e. literary and cultic, or formal and functional. Grouped into three main sections, these contributions …
The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminis…
"This book argues that the Dialogues on the Miracles of the Italian Fathers, Pope Gregory the Great's (590-604) most controversial work, should be considered from the perspective of a wide-ranging debate about the saints which took place in early Byzantine society. Like other co…
