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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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Le corps du saint dans l'hagiographie du Maghreb médiéval

Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2006
This article attempts to think about the role given by medieval Maghreb hagiography to the body in the experience of sanctity and in the process of sanctification of a man or a woman. It focuses also on the body’s place in the recognition or consecration
Nelly Amri
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Palček as a Reforming Hero and Reformed Saint: Towards a Bohemian Reformation Hagiography

Terminus
Although the study of Christian hagiography still primarily targets ancient and medieval texts, the early modern hagiography has recently been established as a distinctive research topic. Its focus is
Marie Škarpová
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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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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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
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Some Foundational Considerations on Taxonomy: A Case for Hagiography

Religions, 2019
Since its now notorious mid-1800s historiographical positivist critiques, the term hagiography was often contested as a valid and valuable category for the comparative study of religious phenomena.
Massimo A. Rondolino
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