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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Hagiography"”.
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Human hagiography : the saint figure in modernist British literature.
… and a particular genre, what I call "human" hagiography. Some of these characters are actual saints, but others are fictional characters who possess the traditional characteristics of a medieval saint while bearing the marks of the modernist period. Many authors of the prewar and interwar …
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Archetypal narratives : toward a theological appreciation of early Celtic hagiography.
… saints as examples of religious literature. Hagiography is commonly studied as an historical artefact indicative of the politics or linguistics of the time in which a text was composed, but few theorists have attempted to interpret its religious content. As these texts were composed within …
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Saints George, Sebastian, and Eustace in Medieval Castilian Prose Hagiography
… manuscripts of the corpus of Castilian prose hagiography known as Compilation B. Chapter One provides an introduction to the thematic and codicological contexts of the legends, asking whether it is possible to identify unifying literary or conceptual features. An analysis of the prehistory of …
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The Whitby life of Gregory the Great: exegesis and hagiography
… is one of the earliest examples of Anglo-Saxon hagiography, and is the earliest surviving life of Gregory the Great (590-604). The work has proved itself an anomaly in subject matter, style and approach, not least because of the writer’s apparently arbitrary insertion of an account of the …
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Subaltern Saints: Medieval Iberian Hagiography in Dialogue with Latin American Testimonio
… expression and influence in their societies. In hagiography, as in testimonio, powerful writers seek legitimacy within their communities by representing, imitating, conveying, facilitating, or portraying voices in pain, exploiting the heroism of suffering and the ideal of administering to others …
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Humour in vernacular hagiography from the tenth to the thirteenth century in England
This thesis is the first sustained study of the execution and purpose of literary humour in vernacular saints’ lives circulating from the late tenth to the late thirteenth century in England. Although humour has often been acknowledged in hagiographic narratives as either a given standard or as a …
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"Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Captivity Narrative: ""Naufragios"", ""Wahrhaftige Historia"", and ""Peregrinação"""
The diverse strands and varied emphases of the rich hagiographic tradition inherited from the Middle Ages are used to express startlingly different world views in these three autobiographical narratives. The examination of the hagiographic discourse reveals the dialectical tensions characteristic …
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The prose lives of Venantius Fortunatus: Hagiography, lay piety and pastoral care in sixth-century Gaul
This study uses the prose hagiography of the poet Venantius Fortunatus (c.530-600/609 CE) to examine the relationship between hagiographical narrative and pastoral care in the early Merovingian kingdoms. Consisting of the lives of six bishops and the ascetic Queen Radegund, this body of work has …
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Heteroglossia and ‘hagiography’: authorship, authorisation and the collective/ individual couplet in different every time and associated public works
In this contextual statement, I critically reflect on the accompanying public works, including my authorised biography of the British musician Robert Wyatt. The contribution to knowledge is twofold. Firstly, there is the fact that, despite his status as a musician, mine is to date the only Robert …
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Sanctity in Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Hagiography: Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi and Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Vita Sancti Oswaldi
… examines central examples of sanctity in the hagiography of late tenth- and early eleventh-century England in order to determine whether or not there are any common themes to be found. It considers specific moments and examples from the broad context of 'the Benedictine Reform' in order to …
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Catholic Hagiography of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Reception, Dissemination and Elements of the Saints’ Cult in the Late 14th - Early 17th Century /
… dwells on the issues pertaining to Catholic hagiography in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The key aim of this research was to analyse Catholic hagiographic literature which circulated in the GDL and highlight its constituent parts, thus exhibiting its reception and dissemination as well as the …
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Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės katalikiškoji hagiografija: recepcija, sklaida ir šventųjų kulto bruožai XIV a. pabaigoje – XVII a. pradžioje /
… dwells on the issues pertaining to Catholic hagiography in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The key aim of this research was to analyse Catholic hagiographic literature which circulated in the GDL and highlight its constituent parts, thus exhibiting its reception and dissemination as well as the …
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Chains of virtue: Seventeenth-century saints in Spanish colonial Lima
… in discourses about language and bodies. Hagiography provided Creole communities with religious narratives of self-legitimization and self-definition. This questions a general scholarly assumption that saints of the Early Modern period are the creations of the ecclesiastical powers in …
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Just Deserts: Losing Origen and Gaining Retributive Judgment in the Hagiographical Literature of the Early Byzantine World
… rise in production and distribution of Christian Hagiography in the Early Byzantine Empire points towards a unique moment in Christian History. The role of the saint was moved from the margins to a central and dynamic position within the church hierarchy and broader religious landscape. Meeting …
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Living Words; Dying Flesh: The Truth and Testimonies of Desdemona in Othello and Pompilia in The Ring and the Book
… a focus on martyrdom, testimony, equivocation, hagiography, and femininity. Furthermore, it compares Desdemona’s and Pompilia’s speeches to those of their husbands through close readings of the primary texts. Desdemona’s and Pompilia’s adherence to spiritual salvation and relationship, as shown …
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Marriage and Brotherhood in Muscovite Russia
… at depictions of marriage and brotherhood in hagiography and iconography respectively. They focus on Petr and Fevroniia, the first married couple to be canonised in Russia in 1547. In 2008, their feast day was reworked into a state festival called the ‘Day of Family, Love and Fidelity’, now …
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Engaging the manuscript: new editions and reading the 'whole book' in Chetham's Library MS 8009
… texts in Middle English including romance, hagiography, courtesy literature, and a comic text. This thesis argues for the importance of reading medieval literature in its manuscript context. Although there is a growing trend to consider the ‘whole book’ and integrate analysis of the material …
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