Search Results - "Hagiography"

Miracula, saints' cults and socio-political landscapes: Bobbio, Conques and post-Carolingian society by Taylor, Faye C.

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The “grave covering” of St Demetrios between Byzantium and Rus by White, Monica

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The representations and functions of youth and young people in Early Medieval English literature by Giancoli, Chiara

“…It explores how youth was represented in wisdom poetry (Chapter 2), hagiography (Chapter 3), and heroic verse (Chapter 4), and how it was employed: how did the descriptions of youth and young people contribute to the values in these texts? …”
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The naming of Guthlac by Cavill, Paul

“…It is pointed out that Felix’s vocabulary in the naming passages bears striking resemblance to that in a passage of Jerome’s translation of the Regula Pachomii which relates it to desert monasticism, the dominant paradigm for Felix’s hagiography.…”
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Colonial Rewriting of African History: Misinterpretations and Distortions in Belcher and Kleiner’s Life and Struggles of Walatta Petros by Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw

“…The Hagiography of Ethiopian Saint Woletta Petros was recently translated from Ge’ez into English by Wendy Belcher and Michael Kleiner. …”
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