Hagiography in Byzantium: Literature, Social History and Cult

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Hagiography in Byzantium: Literature, Social History and Cult is written by Stephanos Efthymiadis and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040243762 (ISBN 10) and 9781040243763 (ISBN 13).

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.