Hagiography IPAc en icon h i r f i is the study of saint s. From the Greek lang el Latn h a ios lang el , holy or saint and lang el Latn graph in lang el , to write , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology , the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common. This latter term, in fact, follows original Greek practice, where refers to visual images of the saints, while their written lives lang el or lang la vit or the study thereof are known as lang el . Christian hagiographies focus on the lives, and notably ... Studies, Aberystwyth University. p. 5.20. ISBN 978 1 906214 15 9 ref Development Hagiography constituted ... hagiography was one of the more important vehicles for the study of inspirational history during ..., Hagiography became a literary genre par excellence for the teaching of a largely illiterate audience. Hagiography provided priests and theologians with the classical handbooks in a form that allowed ... Hagiography Anglo Norman . Of all the English hagiographers no one was more prolific nor so ... Orthodox visual hagiography. This is one of the best known surviving Byzantine mosaics in Hagia ... propaganda . ref http www.allempires.com article index.php?q Propaganda in Hagiography Propaganda in Hagiography By Theodore Felix, 20 August 2008 Revised All Empires History ref Today, the works ... Butler Hippolyte Delehaye Jean Bolland Legendary material in Christian hagiography Life of Alexander ..., 1989 . Ana Marikovi and Trpimir Vedri , eds. Identity and alterity in Hagiography and the Cult ... CathEncy wstitle Hagiography http www.fordham.edu halsall basis delehaye legends.html Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the Saints An Introduction to Hagiography 1907 http elvis.rowan.edu kilroy ... www.hagiographysociety.org Hagiography Society Category Christian hagiography Category Sainthood ... more details
Refimprove date September 2010 Synthesis date September 2010 While from its early days Christian hagiography recognized some distinction between the mythical and the historical in the lives of saints and martyrs, the more precise conception of legendary material in hagiography belongs to the religious practice of the Middle Ages. Dubious date September 2010 From the early modern period standards of historiography began to be applied to the corpus of writings. It became apparent that Christian legends repeat the conceptions found in pre Christian religious tales. Terminology The legenda literally, that which is for reading included facts which were historically genuine, as well as narrative which Christians now class as unhistorical legend. The term is a creation of the Middle Ages, and has its source in the reading of the prayers used in religious services. Since the days of the martyrs, the Catholic Church recalled to mind her famous dead in the prayers of the Mass and in the Office, by commemorating the names noted in the martyrologies and making mention of incidents in their lives and martyrdom. When the lectio became a matter of precept, the reading matter in the office for the day became in a precise sense legenda that which must be read . After the 13th century, the word legenda was regarded as the equivalent of Hagiography vita Life and passio suffering , and, in the 15th century, the liber lectionarius is comprised under what is known as legend . Thus, historically considered, legend is the received story of the saints. Early modern Protestant reception The stories of the saints were supplemented and embellished according to popular theological conceptions and inclinations ... in hagiography and legend. Contemporary attitudes The Roman Breviary officially designates the lesson ... story or a fictitious religious tale. Hagiography is to day the province of the historian, who must ... In Christian Hagiography Category Christian hagiography ... more details
The Saints of Georgia is a book of hagiography published by Bessarion. It is a primary source of biographies of saints, including the following Abiathar and Sidonia Abibo Joseph References Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. DEFAULTSORT Saints Of Georgia, The Category Christian hagiography saint stub ... more details
The Vitae Patrum is an encyclopedia of hagiography hagiographical writings from early Christianity. The Greek and Latin texts were compiled, edited, and translated into Latin by Heribert Rosweyde . It was published in ten books in 1628. ref http www.vitae patrum.org.uk ref The bulk of the texts date from the third and fourth centuries. references Christianity stub Category Christian hagiography ... more details
Stephen of Hierapolis fl. 600 was a bishop of Hierapolis Bambyce , Roman Syria Syria , and the author of a hagiography of St. Golindouch . Category 7th century bishops Category Hagiographers Category Syrian Christians bio stub ... more details
Kalendarium Manuale Utriusque Ecclesiae Orientalis et Occidentalis is a book by Nikolaus Nilles , Society of Jesus S.J. , published in Innsbruck by Oeniponte in 1896. It contains a number of hagiography hagiographies . These include Abai martyr Abai . References Frederick George Holweck Holweck, F. G. , A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. Category Christian hagiography Category German books ... more details
Menologium der Orthodox Katholischen Kirche des Morgenlandes is a volume of hagiography by Probst Mayhew, published in Berlin in 1900. It is the sole primary collected source of several lives of saints. The individuals included in the book include Abda and Sabas Saint Abercius Abercius martyr Abiathar and Sidonia References Frederick George Holweck Holweck, F. G. , A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co., 1924. Category Christian hagiography Category German books ... more details
Heiligen Lexicon, oder Lebensgeschichten aller Heiligen by Johann Evangelist Stadler is a book of hagiography published in Augsburg in 1861. It contains biographical information on several saints, including Abias Abiatha, Hathes and Mamlacha Abibion References Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. Category Christian hagiography Category German books saint stub ... more details
Abercius Avercius, Avircius, Avirkios may refer to the Inscription of Abercius , a hagiography from Abercius of Hieropolis Abercius of Hieropolis , the writer of that document and a Christian saint Abercius of Abercius and Helena , a pair of sibling martyr s Saint Abercius , a Christian martyr Abercius martyr , a Christian martyr dab pt Ab rcio ru ... more details
Kirchliches Handlexicon is a book published by Michael Buchberger in Munich in 1907. It describes several saints , listed below Aaron References Frederick George Holweck Holweck, F. G. , A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. Category Christian hagiography Category German books ... more details
Les Petits Bollandistes is a 17 volume collection of lives of the saints by Paul Guerin, published in Paris in 1865. References Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. DEFAULTSORT Petits Bollandistes Category Christian hagiography Category French books Category 1865 books ... more details
Synaxaire Arabe Jacobite is a volume containing biographies of several saints. These include Abadios Abakuh References Frederick George Holweck Holweck, F. G. , A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis, MO B. Herder, 1924. Category Christian hagiography nl Arabisch Jacobitisch Synaxarium ... more details
Les Martyrs d gypte is a work by Hippolyte Delehaye , included in Analecta Bollandiana 40. It contains references to several saints, including Abadiu of Antinoe Ab m n of Tarn t Kirdjun References Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. Category Christian hagiography ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 The Silsilat al nasab i Safaviya , also spelled Selselat an Nasab e Safaviyye Lang fa , meaning Genealogy of the Safavid Dynasty was written by Sheikh Pir Sufism Pir Husayn Abd az Zahidi, a 17th century descendant of Sheikh Zahed Gilani , during the reign of Shah Suleiman I of Persia Sulayman . This hagiography , in praise of the Safavid forebearers, was devoted to the genealogy of Safavid Sufi masters. DEFAULTSORT Silsilat Al Nasab I Safaviya Category Safaviyeh order ... more details
The Syrian Martyrology of Rabban Silba is a book containing the names and feast days of a number of martyrs of the Syrian Church. It was edited by P. Paul Peeters, Society of Jesus S.J. , and published in Analecta Bollandiana 27 in 1908. It includes the following saints Aaron the Illustrious Saint Abel Syrian Mar Abhai Abhai of Hach Abhai saint Abhai teacher References Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. saint stub Category Christian hagiography ... more details
Les Vies des Saints de Bretagne is a book by Guy Alexis Lobineau , O.S.B. . It was published in Paris in 1838. It describes several saints of Brittany, and their feast days. These include the following individuals, listed by feast day June 21 Aaron of Aleth 22 Aaron of Aleth References Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. DEFAULTSORT Vies des Saints de Bretagne Category Christian hagiography Category French books Category 1838 books ... more details
Ausgew hlte Akten Persischer M rtyrer is a book by Oskar Braun which was published in 1915 in Kempten . It contains biographical material regarding several saints, including Mar Abba Simon of Bet Titta References Frederick George Holweck Holweck, F. G. , A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis, MO B. Herder, 1924. Category Christian hagiography Category German books ... more details
The Lesser Eastern Churches is a book by Adrian Fortescue , published in London in 1913. It contains biographical material relating to the following saints Mar Abba References Frederick George Holweck Holweck, F. G. , A Biogrpahical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis, MO B. Herder, 1924. Category Christian hagiography Category British books DEFAULTSORT Lesser Eastern Churches Christian book stub ... more details
The Lives of the Irish Saints and Martyrs is a book by D. P. Coningham , which was published in New York in 1870. It contains the lives of a number of Irish saints , including Abban of Kill Abban . Coningham s early sources include the Martyrology of Tallaght and the Martyrology of Gorman . References Frederick George Holweck Holweck, F. G. , A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. DEFAULTSORT Lives of the Irish Saints and Martyrs, The Category American non fiction books Category Christian hagiography reli book stub ... more details
Menaea Graeca Greek language Greek Menaea , in Latin language Latin is the title of a 12 volume set of books published in Venice in 1880. It includes Biography biographies of the following Christianity Christian saint s Saint Abercius Abercius martyr Romanus of Samosata References Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. Category Christian hagiography Category Italian books saint stub pt Menaea Graeca ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Embrico of Mainz was a twelfth century scholar and the author of the Vita Mahumeti . Embrico wrote the Vita in verse, modelled on the verse hagiography of contemporaries such as Hildebert of Le Mans . Whereas earlier texts had portrayed Islam as Paganism pagan idolatry and Muhammad as a pagan deity , Embrico and subsequent 12th century scholars viewed Islam as a form of Christian heresy and Muhammad as a particularly vile heresiarch . Earlier studies of this change have explained it as a response to further exposure to Islam, though the resurgence of heresy within Christian Europe is of note. In each case, Islam is associated with forms of doctrinal corruption paganism for the early Middle Ages , heresy for the twelfth century. See John Tolan, Anti Hagiography Embrico of Mainz s Vita Mahumeti, Journal of Medieval History 22 1996 , 25 41. , Saracens Islam in the Medieval European Imagination. New York Columbia University Press, 2002. DEFAULTSORT Mainz, Embrico Of Category 12th century scholars Category 12th century Latin writers Category Critics of religions or philosophies ... more details
Vita Ansgari is the biography of Ansgar , written by Rimbert , his successor as archbishop in Hamburg Bremen . Written in about 875 CE, the Vita is an important source in not only detailing Ansgar s missionary work in Scandinavia but in its descriptions of the everyday lives of people during the Viking Age . ref Cite book last Jesch first Judith authorlink title Women in the Viking Age publisher Boydell Press year 1991 location pages 89 url http books.google.com books?id 9xpNRpI9zFoC&printsec frontcover v onepage&q &f false doi isbn 978 0 85115 360 5 ref See also Hagiography References reflist External links Vita Ansgari, English translation from http www.fordham.edu halsall basis anskar.html Medieval sourcebook Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ansgari, Vita ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Vita Ansgari Category Christian hagiography Category Viking Age Category 9th century books Saint stub bio book stub es Vita Ansgarii lv Sv t Anskara dz ve nds Vita Ansgari sv Vita Anskarii ... more details
The Old English Martyrology is a collection of over 230 hagiography hagiographies , probably compiled in Mercia , or by someone who wrote in the Old Mercian Mercian dialect of the Old English language , in the second half of the 9th century. The sources of the Old English Martyrology include the works of Bede , Aldhelm , Eddius , Adomn n , Gregory the Great , and Isidore of Seville , showing that the author had access to a significant library. Five principal manuscripts survive, but parts of January, and much of February and December are lost. The standard modern edition is by G nter Kotzor, Das altenglische Martyrologium Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften , volumes 88 1 and 88 2, 1981 . Earlier editions, replaced by Kotzor s work, include Herzfeld s An Old English Martyrology Early English Text Society , no. 116, 1900 . An English translation by Christine Rauer is in preparation. References Michael Lapidge Lapidge, Michael , Martyrology, OE in Michael Lapidge et al. eds , The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo Saxon England. Oxford Blackwell, 1999. ISBN 0 631 22492 0 cite web url http www.litencyc.com php sworks.php?rec true&UID 11997 title Old English Martyrology last Magennis first Hugh date 2003 04 30 accessdate 2007 10 20 work The Literary Encyclopedia cite web url http www.st andrews.ac.uk cr30 martyrology last Rauer first Christine title The Old English Martyrology An Annotated Bibliography date accessdate 2007 10 20 Category Christian hagiography Category Old English literature fr Martyrologe vieil anglais ... more details
The Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis is a catalogue of Arabic , Coptic language Coptic , Syriac language Syriac , Armenian language Armenian , and Ge ez language Ethiopian hagiographic materials, including ancient literary works on the Saint saint s lives, the Translation relics translations of their relic relics , and their Miracle miracles , arranged alphabetically by saint . It is usually abbreviated as BHO in scholarly literature. ref See for example, Anneke B. Mulder Bakker, ed., http books.google.com books?id oP2gQTWuVXoC&lpg PA138&pg PA138 v onepage&f false The Invention of Saintliness New York Routledge, 2002 , 138 . ref The listings include Manuscript MSS , Incipit incipits , and printed editions. The BHO along with the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca BHG and Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina BHL are the most useful tools in the research of literary documents concerning the saints. ref Sergei Hackel, ed., http books.google.com books?id q3MI 4Nws 8C&lpg PA161&pg PA161 v onepage&f false The Byzantine Saint San Bernardino Borgo Press, 1983 , 161 . ref Editions Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis, ed. Paul Peeters, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 Bruxelles Soci t des Bollandistes , 1910 reprinted 1954, 1970 . References Reflist External links http www.kbr.be socboll Soci t des Bollandistes http www.the orb.net encyclop religion hagiography bguide.htm Online reference of Medieval Sources . Category Christian hagiography ... more details
The Vitas Patrum Emeritensium is an Early Middle Ages early Medieval Latin Hagiography hagiographical work written by an otherwise unknown Paul the Deacon of M rida . The work narrates the lives of the five bishops who held the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of M rida Badajoz see of Merida in the second half of the 6th century and the first half of the 7th century, which were Paul Bishop of M rida Paul , Fidelis Bishop of M rida Fidelis , Masona , Innocent Bishop of M rida Innocentius and Renovatius Bishop of M rida Renovatius , with particular space being given to the life of Masona. ref name FC131 Francis Clark, The Pseudo Gregorian Dialogues , Brill, 1997, pp. 131 135 ref The date of composition is debated, but is generally thought to have been made in the 7th century, even if scholars such as Francis Clark that it could be as late as the 9th century. But this regards the bulk of the text and not the preface and the first three chapters that were added much later. First printed in 1633 in Madrid , only half a dozen manuscripts survive plus some fragments. ref name FC131 References reflist Category 7th century Christian texts Category Christian hagiography Category Early medieval Latin literature Category History of Christianity texts Category Latin prose texts Christian book stub ... more details
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