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La forma breve agiografica in area romanza: prassi e teoria

Carte Romanze, 2019
Il presente contributo tende a mettere in luce il rapporto stretto che sussiste fra agiografia e brevità, mostrando come diversi elementi significativi in tal senso emergano già nei rari studi a carattere teorico-letterario che propongono modelli formali
Filippo Fonio
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hagiography [PDF]

, 2020
Hagiography is a problematic yet widely used term with varying connotations; it resists narrow definition. Outside the hagiographa of the Hebrew Bible (i.e., the books other than the Law and the Prophets), the concept is based on a core of Christian Greek and Latin works, from the 2nd to 5th century ce, which range from martyr ...
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Bhakti, dharma e vairāgya nell’agiografia di Pīpā

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2019
Pīpā was the rājā of Gagraun in Rājashān in XV century. According to his hagiography, he went to Banāras, following a divine inspiration, and became disciple of Rāmānanda.
Pinuccia Caracchi
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Hagiographie et onomastique [PDF]

Nouvelle revue d'onomastique, 2017
Billy Pierre-Henri. Hagiographie et onomastique. In: Nouvelle revue d'onomastique, n°59, 2017. Noms de lieux, noms de personnes : la question des sources. Toponymie urbaine de Paris et de sa banlieue. Actes du XVIIe colloque de la Société française d’onomastique, 2-5 décembre 2015. Volume 1. pp. 203-216.
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Stefan Dečanski as a New Tobit [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Although it is considered part of the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament, the Book of Tobit has been highly popular among readers since the early Christian era.
Polovina Nataša M.
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Comparison as a Provisional Activity

Religions, 2020
The careers of many scholars in various disciplines have been focused on the study of hagiography, including that of the author. Yet, as those scholars have uncovered new knowledge and employed new interpretations of the materials at hand, the very ...
Nikolas O. Hoel
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Comparative Hagiology and/as Manuscript Studies: Method and Materiality

Religions, 2019
Although the academic study of hagiography continues to flourish, the role of comparative methods within the study of sanctity and the saints remains underutilized.
Barbara Zimbalist
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Bluntschli, C’est Moi? International legal history and hagiography

Transnational Legal Theory
Hagiography comprises idealised biographical histories of religious, political, cultural, and academic figures. While often centring on character, they also record academic accomplishments that evidence a person's worth as an exemplar.
Aoife O’Donoghue
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Late Antique Latin Hagiography, Truth and Fiction: Trends in Scholarship

L'Antiquité Classique, 2018
It is commonly known that hagiography cannot easily be defined in terms of fact and fiction. Although hagiographical texts usually employ strategies to underline their authenticity, they can also contain fictionalised elements – even the saints ...
Klazina Staat
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Eulogy in the structure of Hieromonk Domentijan's hagiographies [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2016
In Old Serbian Literature three types of genres can be distinguished: prose, poetry and transitional genres. Eulogy belongs to the transitional genres; in its structure both prose and poetic elements are contained.
Kostić-Tmušić Aleksandra S.
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