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Comparative Hagiology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This Special Issue engages with questions of theory and methods in the comparative, cross-cultural study of hagiographical sources. As such, it offers, first and foremost, the venue for conducting a scientific discussion on a (re)definition of ...
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The Idea of Innocent Martyrdom in Late Tenth- and Eleventh-century English Hagiology

open access: yesStudies in Church History, 1993
Kings and princes who were classed as ‘innocent martyrs’ or ‘passion-sufferers’ because they were thought to have been murdered in Christlike circumstances were known in many parts of Europe in the Middle Ages. This paper is about six Anglo-Saxon saints of this type, who are also distinguished by their youth.
P. Hayward
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The Science of Possession: Conscience and Hagiology in Early Stuart England

open access: yes, 2001
Following the execution of King Charles I on 29 January 1649, there appeared an anonymous pamphlet entitled A Miracle of Miracles: Wrought by the Blood of King Charles the First, of happy Memory. This curious chapbook narrated the fate of a young Deptford woman who had contracted an untreatable strain of scrofula, the ‘Kings Evill’: ‘thus was the poore
M. Holmes
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Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2022
Abstract The study of emotion in Islamic hagiology remains largely uninterrogated, as visible in elliptical descriptions that classify particular texts, bodily gestures, or utterances as “emotive.” I advocate for a shift from taxonomic approaches to emotion to a focus on function in narrative hagiographies. I argue that emotion provides a rich analytic
Stephanie Yep
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