... of Serug John Chrysostom bishop of Constantinople Kazhdan A Severus bishop of Antioch Smith J W Williams R Castelli E Frank G Kalogeras N Aigrain R Grégoire R Talbot A ‐M Head T Musurillo H Noble T F X Waddell H White C martyr passions saints' lives martyrdom early Christian period...

...This chapter argues that, through his intimate familiarity with late antique and medieval Spanish chronicles, saints’ lives, liturgical texts, and antiquities, Higuera was able to mold the false chronicles in close imitation of ancient and early medieval models to create the illusion...

...The fifteenth century saw a marked increase in the number of saints’ lives, both of those written in older literary forms as well as of those written in newer styles. Many fifteenth-century legends, by anonymous writers, continued the narrative forms of an earlier period. At the same time, monastic...

...Karen A. Winstead, Saints’ Lives and Sacred Biography. In: The Oxford History of Poetry in English. Edited by Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, Oxford University Press. © Karen A. Winstead (2023). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198827429.003.0015 This chapter surveys...

... France, principally ecclesiastical councils plus some saints’ lives and miracles. Historiographical critiques of earlier interpretations of the Peace movement are rehearsed, noting that it is wrong to see the Church as straightforwardly opposing (lay, knightly) violence; rather, the peace councils...

... never held by Graeco-Roman—or even most Jewish—biographies in their own reception histories. The chapter traces this influence by means of comparison with various genres that arose subsequent to the canonical gospels and with direct reference to them: apocryphal literature, saints’ Lives, and miracle...

... France in the seventh and eighth centuries; central Anatolia around 600; two large Egyptian villages, Aphroditõ in the sixth century and Jēme in the seventh and eighth; and a village in England in the seventh century. There are three main sources for discussion. The first one is some saints' lives, which...

... and adapted by religious and secular writers in saints' lives, exemplary tales, romances, and chronicles. Recurring motifs include exposure of babies as foundlings, recognition scenes, violence (parricide, matricide, filicide, rape), confession, and penance. Women can initiate incestuous relationships...

...’ ‘vie’ This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the literary culture of women in medieval England. It describes the focuses of the book, which is on saints' lives and their importance for women. A primary concern is the pervasiveness of virginity as a cultural ideal and form...

... with The Wars of the Roses and moving on to the Hundred Years War. The book examines the first collection of all female saints' lives in any language: Legends of Holy Women composed by Bokenham between 1443 and 1447. The book is organized around the image of the body—a medieval procedure...

... John Theristis saint Philagathos of Cerami monk and preacher Stilo William I king of Sicily Cyprian of Calamizzi saint and abbot Reggio Calabria St Nicholas of Calamizzi monastery Frederick II emperor and king of Sicily Melfi Norman Italy saints’ lives identity formation Luke bishop...

... expressed their concepts of England as a nation, and how they exploited the association between nation, people, and language. At the centre of this work is a study of the construction of national identity that takes place in the histories written in English. The contributions of romances and saints' lives...

...This chapter provides a cross-section of the prose fiction printed in English between 1516 and 1520. Of the ten examples of narrative prose known to have survived from this period – comprising three saints’ lives, two supernatural tales, two biographical jestbooks, and three romances – all mingle...

... Saint Vasily I Grand Prince founding stories sermons saints’ lives miracles prayer heroic lay Marian cult holy fool word-weaving From the eleventh century, writers began to tell the story of their own and their land’s piety within the ambit of court and Church. This chapter discusses...

... Old English Orosius Scandinavia Scotland Noah and his sons Bible Isidore of Seville Ælfric of Eynsham (955–1010) Benedictine Reform early medieval Europe saints’ lives hagiography Lives of Saints Uton nu behealden þa wundorlican swyftnysse þære sawle: heo hæfð swa mycele swyftnysse þæt heo...

... traders travelled to Rome to sell their wares; and that his writings are indebted to the works of learned Europeans.² No work within Ælfric s considerable oeuvre addressed Europe more prominently than his Lives of Saints (993x998). The Lives is a dynamic and diverse collection of saints lives...

...The first book-length study of the Scottish Legendary (late 14^th c.), the only extant collection of saints’ lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland, scrutinises the dynamics of hagiographic narration, its implicit assumptions about literariness, and the functions...

... and the saints' lives composed by women, together with traditions of women's patronage and composition both as individuals and in female communities. Virginity is explored as a potential model of agency for women and the book examines the capacity of the virgin to give as well as to be given in the texts...

...This chapter on mother-son incest (the most serious kind for the Middle Ages) considers two main types of plot. When the incest is consummated, the issue is whether the protagonist(s) will confess, do penance, and be saved. Saints' lives sometimes include a story of incestuous birth, and also...

...This chapter explores literary debates about the contractual nature of sovereign relations in a set of literary texts about wolves: saints’ lives in which wolves submit miraculously to human mastery; Marie de France’s fables, in which wolves contemplate the advantages of domestication; and Marie's...