The Byzantine Saint by Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press | 2001 | ISBN: 0881412023 | English | PDF | 245 pages | 15.44 Mb
| “ | The Byzantine Saint is one of the most important contributions to the field of Byzantine hagiography in recent years. This collection volume is based on papers presented by a preeminent group of scholars at a Byzantine studies conference at the University of Birmingham. | ” |
Table of contentsIllustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Sergei Hackel
"The Byzantine Saint": The XIVth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Anthony Bryer
ORIGINS
Pachomios and the Idea of Sanctity
Henry Chadwick
Hellenistic and Oriental Origins
Han J. W. Drijvers
THE SAINT AND SOCIETY
The Politicisation of the Byzantine Saint
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
The Political Saint of the Eleventh Century
Rosemary Morris
The Byzantine Holy Man in the Twelfth Century
Paul Magdalino
Saints and Sainthood in the Early Palaiologan Period
Ruth Macrides
Saintete et Pouvoir
Evelyne Patlagean
The Holy Fool
Lennart Ryden
THE LIFE AS GENRE
The "Low Level" Saint's Life in the Early Byzantine World
Robert Browning
The Saint as a Symbol
Michel van Esbroeck
St Polychronius and his Companions - but which Polychronius?
Anna Crabbe
The Acta Sanctorum and Bollandist Methodology
Flor Van Ommeslaeghe
Self-Canonisation: the "Partial Account" of Nikephoros Blemmydes
Joseph A. Munitiz
THE SAINT IN CULT AND ART
The Traffic in Relics: some Late Roman Evidence
E. D. Hunt
The Role of the Byzantine Saint in the Development of the Icon Cult
Nicholas Gendle
The Mass-Produced Byzantine Saint (summary)
David Buckton
The Forty in Art (summary)
Zaga A. Gavrilovic
The Iconography of the Byzantine Saint in the Illuminations of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (summary)
Vera D. Likhacheva
The Panegyris of the Byzantine Saint
Speros Vryonis Jr.
Contributors
Index
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