

An edition of Hagiography in Byzantium (2011)
literature, social history and cult
By Stephanos Efthymiadis
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
Ashgate Variorum,Routledge
Language
eng
Pages
376
Description:
Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian. The studies reproduced in this volume cover a chronological range from late antiquity to the Paleologan era.