The Byzantine Saint

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The Byzantine Saint is one of the most important contributions to the field of Byzantine hagiography in recent years. This collection volume is based on papers presented by a preeminent group of scholars at a Byzantine studies conference at the University of Birmingham.

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Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Sergei Hackel "The Byzantine Saint": The XIVth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Anthony Bryer ORIGINS Pachomios and the Idea of Sanctity Henry Chadwick Hellenistic and Oriental Origins Han J. W. Drijvers THE SAINT AND SOCIETY The Politicisation of the Byzantine Saint Susan Ashbrook Harvey The Political Saint of the Eleventh Century Rosemary Morris The Byzantine Holy Man in the Twelfth Century Paul Magdalino Saints and Sainthood in the Early Palaiologan Period Ruth Macrides Saintete et Pouvoir Evelyne Patlagean The Holy Fool Lennart Ryden THE LIFE AS GENRE The "Low Level" Saint's Life in the Early Byzantine World Robert Browning The Saint as a Symbol Michel van Esbroeck St Polychronius and his Companions - but which Polychronius? Anna Crabbe The Acta Sanctorum and Bollandist Methodology Flor Van Ommeslaeghe Self-Canonisation: the "Partial Account" of Nikephoros Blemmydes Joseph A. Munitiz THE SAINT IN CULT AND ART The Traffic in Relics: some Late Roman Evidence E. D. Hunt The Role of the Byzantine Saint in the Development of the Icon Cult Nicholas Gendle The Mass-Produced Byzantine Saint (summary) David Buckton The Forty in Art (summary) Zaga A. Gavrilovic The Iconography of the Byzantine Saint in the Illuminations of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (summary) Vera D. Likhacheva The Panegyris of the Byzantine Saint Speros Vryonis Jr. Contributors Index

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