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A Poetic Witness to Early Veneration of St. Helena and St. Constantine the Great among the Slavs
P. 467–472.
Roman Krivko
The article is dedicated to one of the earliest witness of the veneration of St. Helena and St. Constantine among the Slavs as attested by liturgical sources.
Shumilin M., Revue d'Histoire des Textes 2025 Vol. 20 No. 1 P. 251–280
In the article, an attempt is made to apply stemmatic procedures to the manuscript tradition of the Latin Passio Susannae (BHL 7937, dated to the fifth or sixth century ad), in particular to a family which, it is argued, includes mss Città del Vaticano, BAV, Pal. lat. 846; Karlsruhe, BLB, Aug. perg. 32; Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Rh. 81 and Darmstadt, ULB, 383 together with the famous lost codex Fuldensis. The author concludes that the Pal. ...
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Мытарева А. В., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2026 Т. 31 № 1 С. 39–48
The article examines the story “Chemodanov”, 1916, as a parodic version of a hagiography (anti-life), as well as a version of the collision “Man - Fate” developed in the work of Leonid Andreev. The first part of the article provides an analysis of the existing context: some features of the writer's artistic world are identified, ...
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Rogozhina A. A., В кн.: Православная энциклопедия. Том 72. Феофан Исповедник - ФомаТ. 72.: М.: Православная религиозная организация Церковно-научный центр "Православная энциклопедия", 2024. С. 546–547.
Статья рассматривает свидетельства культа мученика Филофея Антиохийского в разных регионах христианского Востока. ...
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Alexandrova N., Вестник Института востоковедения РАН 2024 № 4 С. 108–117
One of the most characteristic features of the Lalitavistara, which belongs to the early monuments of Buddhist hagiography (IV–IX centuries in Sanskritand Chinese versions), is theabundance of “embellishments”. Thetext is filled with repetitiveformulas, praisesand formulaic descriptivefragments. Theseformulaic fragments, however, are of interest in themselves and give some signals to the researcher about certain processes inherent in ...
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Alexandrova N., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2025 № 6 С. 131–142
The story of the young brahmana meeting Buddha Dipankara is of great importance in early Buddhist tradition. This episode usually presented at the beginning of hagiographic narratives creates the inception for all subsequent history and is often found in relief images. This story also plays a special role in the arrangement of the meanings of ...
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Lukhovitskiy L., , in: The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium.: Routledge, 2025. Ch. 4.3 P. 328–344.
The chapter provides a reassessment of the two interpretative models used for the analysis of Palaeologan hagiography, the ‘old saints’ paradigm and the ‘metaphrasis’ paradigm. After a concise description of the sources, the argument develops in three steps. Firstly, a distinction is drawn between the two dichotomies—‘old’ vs ‘new’ saints and ‘rewritings’ vs ‘original compositions’. ...
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Vinogradov A., ASPIRATIO. Церковно-гуманитарные исследования 2024 Т. 1 № 2 С. 104–123
The purpose of this article is to present to Russian-speaking readers a translation of the text of the encomium of Niсetas David Paphlagonian dedicated to the Apostle Andrew, which is among his encomiums to the apostles. The material published here is a second, less well-known work by this author dedicated to the Apostle. The work ...
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Sota J., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2024 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 89–116
Franciscan Juan Gil de Zamora's writings represent the most extensive surviving collection of 13th-century Latin Marian literature in Castile. Covering a broad spectrum of topics and genres, from poetic hymns and sermons to theological treatises and miracle tales, these works offer valuable insights into the Franciscan approach to promoting devotion to Mary among varied audiences. ...
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Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
This book is the first major study exploring archival and memorial practices of the Soviet unofficial culture. The creation of counter-archives was one of the most important forms of cultural resistance in the Soviet Union. Unofficial artists and poets had to reinvent the possibilities of maintaining art and literature that “did not exist”. Against the ...
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Minov S., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2024 Vol. 20
The article explores history of the reception of anti-Jewish hagiographical traditions of Western origin among Syriac Christians during the Islamic period by focusing on the textual tradition of the Miracles of the Virgin, a Western collection of Marian legends that was translated into Arabic during the thirteenth century and later on, during the nineteenth century, ...
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Minov S., , in: The Third Lung: New Trajectories in Syriac Studies: Essays in Honor of Sebastian P. Brock.: Leiden: Brill, 2023. P. 223–234.
In this article, I would like to explore the little-tapped resource of Syriac hagiography by publishing for the first time a brief account of an unexpected friendship between a monk and a fish. Attested, as far as my knowledge goes, in two manuscripts, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Syr. f. 12, and Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 71. ...
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Minov S., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2023 Vol. 19 No. 1 P. 290–313
Taking the newly discovered Syriac composition, entitled Story of Pawla the priest, as an example, the article explores some literary aspects of Christian hagiographical writing in the late antique Syria-Palestine in its relation to the New Testament apocryphal literature. It focuses on the author’s representation of the bathhouse as a heterotopic and liminal space, and ...
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Амерханова Э. И., Lifshits A., В кн.: Археографски прилози, 45Vol. 45.: Beograd: Народна библиотека Србиjе, 2023. Гл. 1 С. 11–27.
In 2022, fragments of a Serbian manuscript from the late 13th century were found in
the Scientific Library of Kazan University (Russia). We managed to identify them as
parts of the Trebnik (Book of Needs), which are kept in various collections in Russia.
This is a manuscript, parts of which were brought from the Slepchensky Monastery
in 1845, 1857 ...
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Белова О. В., Копченова И. В., Ясинская М. В. et al., М.: Научно-гуманитарный центр «Сэфер», 2023.
The present volume of the annual edition Slavic & Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences entitled “End Times” in the Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions includes mate-rials from the international conference of the same name, which took place in Moscow on December 7–9, 2022. The volume presents 13 articles by scholars from Russia and Israel who ...
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Alexandrova N., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2023 № 5 С. 153–165
Ancient Indian Buddhist hagiographic narrative was developing both in the form of text and in the form of images created in abundance in places of worship. These two forms of tradition stood in a certain relation, although the variability of versions was reflected both in the text and in the pictorial lines of development. Comparative ...
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Alexandrova N., Вестник Института востоковедения РАН 2022 № 4 С. 100–19
This paper analyzes the use of the word caitya in three versions of Sanskrit “Lalitavistara”, one of the main Buddhist hagiographic texts. The fact of the existence of three versions, one Sanskrit version (IX c.) and two Chinese versions (IV and VII c.) allows you to track the dynamics of changes both in the set ...
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Lukhovitskiy, Lev, Zharkaya, Varvara, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 2023 Vol. 116 No. 3 P. 813–836
The Brief ekphrasis of the Holy Land ascribed to a certain Ioannes Phokas is a very unusual piece of literature because, unlike other ekphraseis, it deals with a journey. Since the Byzantines did not develop universally accepted rules for writing about pilgrimages, Phokas’ text (like any other rare example of what might be called Byzantine ...
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Vinogradov A., В кн.: Миф, ритуал, литература.: М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2023. С. 394–408.
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