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Hagiography

open access: yes, 2015
Jon Boorstin proposes three purposes for film production – voyeuristic, vicarious, and visceral (Boorstin). Scrutinized in light of Boorstin’s proposal, hagiographical films are most likely to have three purposes imbedded in three generic types ...
Yang, Sunggu
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Historicising trans pasts: An introduction

open access: yes
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 3-13, March 2024.
Chris Mowat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Life of Aleksandr Men\u27: Hagiography in the Making

open access: yes, 1999
Hagiography is not an extinct genre in Russian literature, even though many believe that it was important in the history of early Russian literature but became irrelevant as Russian literature entered its modem period.
Wehrle, Janet M.
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The ‘Zakonik’ of Tsar Dušan: A Socio-Political Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
This feature "ЛѢТОПИСЬ" ('Chronicle') reports on recent events in the field of Early Slavic studies, e.g., celebrations, conferences, symposia, announcements of forthcoming colloquia, and past study groups, etc.On November 22, 1980, in Oxford, England, a
Du Feu, Veronica   +2 more
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Translation and Evolution: Byzantine Monastic Studies since ca. 1990 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
While monks were integral parts of the long‐lasting Byzantine world, Byzantine monasticism and its study can be relatively obscure to nonspecialists, given the diversity of monastic forms practiced in the empire.
Abrahamse   +54 more
core   +2 more sources

A Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Ordering Service for the Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Platform [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2017
Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) is a flexible permissioned blockchain platform designed for business applications beyond the basic digital coin addressed by Bitcoin and other existing networks. A key property of HLF is its extensibility, and in particular the support for multiple ordering services for building the blockchain.
arxiv  

Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might

open access: yes, 2011
Myths of gods, legends of battles, and folktales of magic abound in the heroic narratives of the Middle Ages. Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might describes how Medieval heroes were developed from a variety of source ...
Fee, Christopher R.
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Philotheos Kokkinos"™s hypomnÄ“ma on Saint Nikodemos the Younger (BHG 2307) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Philotheos Kokkinos was one of the most prolific late-Byzantine hagiographers, who eulogized saints of old, as well as contemporaneous holy figures. He dedicated the first among his vitae of contemporaneous saints to the little-known holy man Nikodemos ...
Mitrea, Mihail
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A Byzantine Emperor between Reality and Imagination: The Image of Leo VI in the Hagiographical Texts of the Middle Byzantine Period [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A group of hagiographical texts, written during the period from 886 to 976, contains valuable information about Leo’s VI (886-912) marital adventures, intellectual concerns and administrative skills.
Tsiaples, Georgios
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Northern Russian Monastic Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The breakup of the Soviet Union awoke a renewed fascination in Russian Orthodoxy that reanimated interest in monasticism and its cultural impact on Russian history.
Spock, Jennifer B.
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