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, 2017 This chapter presents a sketch of early Syriac literature during the Roman/Byzantine period, before the Arab conquests. Although its beginnings were pre-Christian, the bulk of Syriac writings is made up of typically Christian compositions, belonging ...
Witold Witakowski
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, 2012 This dissertation analyses the Vita dei Santi Padri, the most important collection of medieval vernacular Italian hagiography. This translation of the Latin Liber Vitaspatrum collection of monastic hagiographies from Late Antique Egypt was completed ...
Radhakrishnan, Manu
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Byzantine Lay Piety, ca. 600-730
, 2014 The present study addresses lay piety in Byzantium from the perspective of its relation to the monastic ideal. My approach builds on work such as Peter Brown's analysis of early Christian asceticism, The Body and Society and John Haldon's socio-cultural ...
Marinides, Nicholas George
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Per Leone di Centuripe e i suoi encomi di s. Nettario (BHG 2284) e di s. Giacomo Maggiore (BHG 786D)
, 2018 Leon of Sicily or of Centuripe is the enigmatic author of two hagiographical texts, the Encomium to St Nektarios, patriarch of Constantinople, edited by F.
Efthymiadis, Stephanos +1 more
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, 2018 The purpose of my study is to explore and analyze some didactic elements concerning gender ideals that are found in hagiographies in early medieval Christianity.
Maillet, Colleen
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Byzantine religious culture : studies in honor of Alice-Mary Talbot /
, 2012 Includes bibliographical references and index.Includes the 'Despised Woman' : Jacob of Serug at the Nativity feast / Susan Ashbook Harvey -- A meeting of Hypatia of Alexandria with St. Febronia of Nisibis in the Life of Sts.
Papaioannou, Stratis,(viaf)60972463 +2 more
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Charisma and Spirituality in the Early Church: A Study of Messalianism and Pseudo-Macarius [PDF]
, 1999 The thesis is an investigation into the concept of Charisma and Spirituality in the Early Church with particular emphasis upon the writings of Ps-Macarius, and of a group of ascetics known as the Messalians, evident in the late fourth / early fifth ...
Burns, Stuart Keith
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On the typology and the worship status of sacred trees with a special reference to the Middle East. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2006 Dafni A.
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Saints in disguise : performance, illusion and truth in early Byzantine hagiography
This book studies early Byzantine hagiographic Lives of saints who disguise their identities (4th-10th cent.), including female saints who live as men in male monasteries, ‘holy fools’ who pretend madness to hide their sanctity, and ‘beggar-saints’ who ...
Van Pelt, Julie
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, 2012 This thesis argues that the origins and evolution of Christian communities in Northern Italy between c. 250 and 381 are comprehensible only within the region's social environment.
Humphries, Mark
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