Hagiography
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This paper examines the reception history of the destruction of a synagogue in Callinicum in 388 CE and the response to its destruction by Ambrose of Milan. The primary sources for this incident are Ambrose’s letters and his earliest... more
This article examines the development of the anonymous Old English homily for Martinmas throughout the ninth and tenth centuries. In particular, the work focuses on how the homily was reshaped during its transmission to conform to the... more
- by Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin
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[Résumé français en-dessous] If all the saints have acquired value as witnesses of the faith in the eyes of the Catholic faithful, their acts, attitudes and messages vary greatly from one period to another. The fourteen contributions to... more
Resum: L'any 1909, durant la Setmana Tràgica, es va perdre el retaule de sant Antoni Abat de Jaume Huguet. En ell es figurava un cicle post mortem, el de la invenció del cos de sant Antoni, poc habitual en la retaulística antoniana i, que... more
Saints were frequently attributed with special therapeutic powers as healers, sometimes explained by historians as elements of folklore. By contrast, the interesting path leading to a specialization – with the disease sometimes even... more
https://www.tibshelf.org/mura-pema-dechen-zangpo This is a short biographical history of the Mura lineage including previous incarnations culminating in a longer biography of the Third Mura Pema Dechen. Written by Tenzin Lungtog Nyima it... more
Around 1571 an Athenian noblewoman, Philothei Benizelou, established the nunnery of Haghios Andreas in the heart of Ottoman Athens. Twelve years later, in 1583, she sent the monk Serapheim Pangalos to Venice to represent the monastery... more
Among Carlo Conti Rossini’s many merits it should be recalled that he was the first to recognize traces of an early layer in the textual history of the Gädlä Sämaʿtat (or “Acts of the martyrs”), a well-known collection of Vitae of foreign... more
The article introduces and motivates the concept of “Popular hagiography,” discusses the features of the vernacular cult of saints, the relationship between the literary and folkloric hagiography, specific conception of holiness, sources... more
- by Andrey Moroz
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[Colaboración con el grupo de investigación "O ensino da fé cristã na Península Ibérica (sécs. XIV, XV e XVI)"]. NOTA: El documento adjunto contiene un modelo de citación. Se ruega utilizarlo en caso de utilizar este texto como... more
- by Isabel Ilzarbe
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Appel à communications pour un colloque co-organisé par le CRHiDI (Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles) et le CéSor (École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Bruxelles et Paris, 4 février et 4 mars 2022. Les propositions de... more