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Hayek, Heroism and Hagiography

2015
Friedrich Hayek (1994, 46) was a teenager (aged 15–19) during the Great War: ‘then and for some years to come still a child’. He told his secretary and appointed biographer, Charlotte Cubitt (2006, 76) that after the war he had been the beneficiary of a ‘charitable project to feed half-starved Austrian children although he had passed his twentieth ...
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The Making and Unmaking of a Saint: Hagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of Aurillac

, 2014
Note on Names Maps 1 and 2 Introduction: Hagiography, Memory, History Chapter 1. Prolegomenon on the Dating and Authorship of the Writings about Gerald of Aurillac Chapter 2. The First Saint Gerald Chapter 3. The Second Saint Gerald Chapter 4.
Mathew Kuefler
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Hagiographies and the History of Medieval Ethiopia*

History in Africa, 1981
The hagiographic literature of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church may be divided into two major categories: the translated lives of the saints and martyrs of the early Christian church and the lives of local saints. The essentially foreign works, which constitute the first of these groups, will be of only peripheral concern in this paper.
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Byzantine Hagiography and its Literary Genres. Some Critical Observations

, 2020
Martin Hinterberger
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Martyr Passions and Hagiography

2009
AbstractA large body of literature survives from the early Christian period, devoted first to accounts of martyrdom suffered on behalf of the emerging religion and then to lives of exemplary Christian witness. They appeared in every language of the early Christian period, establishing literary traditions that flourished throughout the medieval and ...
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Fiction and/or Novelisation in Byzantine Hagiography

, 2020
Charis Messis
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The origins of hagiography and the literature of early monasticism:

, 2020
C. Rapp
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Hagiographies Unbound

2018
This chapter examines how the hagiographies of friends of God enable manifold readings that enable different forms of attachment to Islamic discourses of ethical self-care and spiritual wayfaring. On the one hand, these readings fully inhabit a mystically inclined Shiʻi tradition featuring proponents and detractors that are both powerful and ...
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The City in Byzantine Hagiography

, 2020
H. Saradi
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The Hagiography of Doubt and Scepticism

, 2020
Anthony Kaldellis
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