Hagiography in Byzantium : literature, social history and cult / Stephanos Efthymiadis.

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: I.New developments in hagiography: the rediscovery of Byzantine hagiography -- pt. A LATE ANTIQUITY -- II.Living in a city and living in a Scetis: the dream of Eustathios the banker (BHG Nov. Auct. 1317d) -- III.A day and ten months in the life of a lonely bachelor: the other Byzantium in Miracula S. Artemii 18 and 22 -- IV.De debito bis soluto: an edifying story on the administered oath (BHG Novum Auctarium 1317n) Fontes Minores 11, 2005 -- V.Two Gregories and three genres: autobiography, autohagiography and hagiography -- pt. B THE AGE OF ICONOCLASM AND POST-ICONOCLASM -- VI.John of Sardis and the Metaphrasis of the Passio of St Nikephoros the martyr (BHG 1334) -- VII.Le panegyrique de S. Theophane le Confesseur par S. Theodore Stoudite (BHG 1792b): edition critique du texte integral -- VIII.The Byzantine hagiographer and his audience in the ninth and tenth centuries -- IX.Hagiographica Varia (9th-10th c.) --

Contents note continued: X.The function of the holy man in Asia Minor in the Middle Byzantine period -- XI.Establishing a holy lineage: Theodore the Stoudite's Funerary Catechism for his mother (BHG 2422) (with J.M. Featherstone) -- XII.Le miracle et les saints durant et apres le second iconoclasme -- XIII.Medieval Thessalonike and the miracles of its saints: big and small demands made on exclusive rights (ninth---twelfth centuries) -- XIV.D'Orient en Occident mais etranger aux deux mondes: messages et renseignements tires de la Vie de Saint Nicolas le Pelerin (BHL 6223) -- XV.Le monastere de la Source a Constantinople et ses deux recueils de miracles: entre hagiographie et patriographie -- pt. C LATE BYZANTIUM -- XVI.Late Byzantine collections of miracles and their implications.

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