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The Authorial Self of a Hagiographer through the Lens of his Letters: The Case of Konstantinos Akropolites
Ch. 15. P. 325–341.
Lukhovitskiy L., Zharkaya V.
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National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, Department of Byzantine Research, 2021.
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., Byzantinoslavica 2025 Vol. 83 No. 1-2 P. 108–122
The academic vocabulary used to describe the Iconoclastic Controversy in Byzantium includes both authentic Middle Greek lexemes and artificial terms coined in 16th–17th-century Western Europe, developed in the context of Reformation theological debates. The former category is largely represented by terms referring to the so-called Iconoclasts (εἰκονομάχοι, εἰκονοκλάσται, εἰκονοκαῦ[σ]ται), while the latter includes designations for ...
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Lukhovitskiy L., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 1 С. 1059–1079
This article examines the historical semantics of the post-classical Greek word χριστιανοκατήγορος (literally, “an accuser of Christians”). While its existence in the early Byzantine period is doubtful — there is only one isolated occurrence, which had no impact on later tradition and may even be a 10th-century correction — after the Second Council of Nicaea ...
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Lukhovitskiy L., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2025 Vol. 21 No. 1 P. 342–359
A profession of faith preserved in Princeton MS 180 (13th century, 2nd half) is wrongly indexed in the catalogue of Greek manuscripts at Princeton and the database Pinakes as an unpublished text by Germanos I, patriarch of Constantinople (715–730). Upon closer examination, it appears to be a later compilation that draws upon at least three ...
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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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Routledge, 2025.
The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium presents an overview of the various rewriting processes involved in the production of Byzantine literature. Due to the lack of recent systematic research on the totality of Byzantine literature, which embraces a long millennium of texts, the fluid concept of ‘rewriting’, here studied for the first time in all ...
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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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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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Voskoboynikov O., Логос 2022 Т. 32 № 5 С. 89 – 107
The article is an examination of some of the circumstances of the origin and reception of the letters of
Peter Abelard and his (former) lover Heloise. Although these circumstances have long been studied, and the correspondence itself is among the most famous monuments of Latin of twelfth-century Latin literature, conflicting readings of it reveal the ambivalence ...
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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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