10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAGIOGRAPHY»
Discover the use of
hagiography in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hagiography and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine
Hagiography: ...
This volume is an essential resource for the scholarly community of Byzantinists, Medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of the narrative.
Professor Stephanos Efthymiadis, 2013
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Medieval
Hagiography: An Anthology
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Early Christian
Hagiography and Roman History
In an introductory chapter, he advances an unassailable proof that the Apostle Peter was burned alive in Nero's deadly entertainments in 64, not crucified as legend asserts, and argues that the Apostle Paul was probably executed in Spain ...
Timothy David Barnes, 2010
There are no saints in this hagiography Ð only ghosts, sisters, spiders, birds É This is an anti-biography. It starts with death and ends with birth. In between: life after life.
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Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orléans, ...
This book explores the uses made of sanctity and patronage by the Franks.
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Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay
Hagiography
Offering a rebuke to recent criticism of Foucault, this text is a defence of the late French philosopher and historian.
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Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and
Hagiography in Late Antiquity
Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and ...
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Tales of God's Friends: Islamic
Hagiography in Translation
"The works of Islamic mysticism are a crucial genre of Islamic piety, and the lives of the awliya (friends of God) have been and continue to be a crucial way in which the theoretical insights of Sufism are embodied and communicated to a ...
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A Companion to Middle English
Hagiography
The Saints' Life was one of the most popular forms of literature in medieval England. This volume offers crucial information for an understanding of the genre.
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Late Merovingian France: History and
Hagiography, 640-720
This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom.
Paul Fouracre, Richard A. Gerberding, 1996
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAGIOGRAPHY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
hagiography is used in the context of the following news items.
MIFF: 'Listen to Me, Marlon' a documentary that's so much more
At first it sounds like an exercise in mechanics, perhaps yet another hagiography, a tome out of the writings of another Hollywood saint. «Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, Jul 15»
Whither Zimbabwe after Mugabe? It could all go badly, or surprise …
... and one can't be sure the masses won't buy into it - but also because this kind of hagiography is exclusively reserved for Mugabe in Zanu PF. «Mail & Guardian Africa, Jul 15»
Love and Mercy review: The life of Brian Wilson revisited
Still, Love and Mercy is imaginative enough to escape accusations of hagiography. Watch carefully for the final positioning of the word “End”. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Book Review | Creating a New Medina
At a time when hagiography is increasingly passed off as history, Dhulipala's book is a good example of what evidence-based history writing ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
In intimate Amy Winehouse doc, celebrity is the villain
Both films replace hagiography with evidence (archival video, audio testimony, even old voice mails), but the purity of Kapadia's aesthetics ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
Movie review: In Winehouse doc 'Amy,' celebrity is the villain
Both films replace hagiography with evidence (archival video, audio testimony, even old voicemails), but the purity of Kapadia's aesthetics ... «Greensboro News & Record, Jul 15»
Richard Nixon Was Not Misunderstood
Thomas also relied on a hagiography written by Jonathan Aitkin, a British member of Parliament to whom Nixon also gave unusual access. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
REVIEW: Orson's Shadow, Southwark Playhouse
... so the play is written with an empathy that comes from personal knowledge, but in no way shades into hagiography or special pleading. «British Theatre, Jul 15»
A Documentarian of Brooklyn's Underground Creative Culture
I do want this to feel objective, as much as possible; no one wants to read a hagiography, I don't think, certainly not of Brooklyn, which at this ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
Phil Taylor: Enough of the Bevan myth. Let's hear it for Henry Willink …
I caught up this morning with Newsnight's hagiography of Clement Attlee's 1945 Labour government, with its talk of “Labour Titans”. (Follow this ... «Conservative Home, Jul 15»
