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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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Enduring After God: An Anatheistic Reframing of Augustine on Suicide

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper proposes a retrieval of Augustine's argument on suicide in De Civitate Dei I.17–27, rearticulating its ethical core for a post‐theistic age through the hermeneutic lens of Richard Kearney's anatheism. Confronting the dual reality of persistent suicide and declining religiosity, I argue that Augustine's pastoral case against ending ...
Kornelius Lumbanbatu
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On guard of the past: The Lives of locally venerated saints in the context of the Anglo-Welsh confrontation at the end of the 11th — 12th century

Шаги, 2023
In the second half of the 11th century, having completed the political conquest of England, William I undertook to establish control over the local church.
A. V. Gusakova
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 799-809, October 2026.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Saints Who Sometimes Were: Utilizing Missionary Hagiography

, 1999
A significant amount of mission history and theology is based on or derived from missionary biography. Many missionary biographies, however, are little more than hagiography. This essay examines the nature of hagiography; suggests how hagiography can be
Alan Neely
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Textual and Linguistic Means of Constructing the Venerable Image in Men of Faith Hagiographies

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2018
The paper provides some results of linguistic analysis of Men of Faith hagiography in synodal and modern periods of Russian hagiography, the Life of Saint Seraphim of Sarov and Optina elder Leonidas (schemamonk Leo), in particular.
Evgeniya G. Dmitrieva, Irina A. Safonova
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Periodisation and Realm of Byzantine Hagiography

, 2014
The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography. Volume I: Periods and Places (2011), еd. Stephanos Efthymiadis, Ashgate.The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography. Volume I: Periods and Places (2011), еd.
Dojčinović, Danijel
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Saint Menas in Medieval Georgia

Vox Patrum
Despite the survival of St Menas’s hagiography in various Georgian iterations and his commemoration in practically all Georgian calendars and martyrologies – both pre- Constantinopolitan and Byzantine – the cult of St Menas was weak in Georgia.
Nikoloz Aleksidze
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