The king’s body in Serbian hagiography: Meaning and function of the corpus invictissimus topos [PDF]
, 2013 Conceptions of the holy in Serbian hagiography were deeply inspired by the translations of patristic, byzantine and, partly, chivalric literature. Whether the corporal is exalted or rejected, in the tradition of Serbian hagiography it is never ...
Marjanović-Dušanić Smilja +1 more
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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The Byzantine city and its historiography [PDF]
This chapter offers an overview of the most important historiographic contributions on the Byzantine city as they encompass a wide methodological and disciplinary array of scholarly expertise: from history to archeology, from literature to hagiography ...
Zavagno, Luca
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The consul vanishes? On using and not using Gregory the Great's Register in early medieval England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-127, February 2024.This article builds upon recent scholarship emphasizing the importance of Gregory the Great's Register as a key text of the Carolingian and post‐Carolingian library, exploring by contrast its peculiarly limited reception in England. It first surveys what little evidence we have for its citation by English ecclesiastics (post‐c.1000, mostly via Wulfstan)
Benjamin Savill
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The Lament for the Missing Girl in Byzantine Hagiography Focused on Women [PDF]
This article examines the hagiographic motif of the lament for a missing girl, tracing its origins and evolution from the Acts of Paul and Thecla through various Byzantine hagiographic texts, including both the Life of Eugenia and its metaphrastic ...
Angel Narro, Narro, Ángel
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Saints' mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 Papavarnavas C.
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 Simeonov G.
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Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story? [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 Rapp C.
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Women's sanctity concept evolution in Byzantine hagiography (8-12 centuries)
, 2010 Рассматриваются основные модели женской святости на материале византийской агиографической литературы VIII-XII вв. в их эволюции. Через анализ исторического контекста предпринимается попытка выделить набор факторов, которые, по большей мере, должны были ...
Охлупина, И. С. +1 more
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Historicising trans pasts: An introduction
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 3-13, March 2024.
Chris Mowat +2 more
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