The Byzantine Saint

The Byzantine Saint is one of the most important contributions to the field of Byzantine hagiography in recent years. St Vladimir's Seminary Press is pleased to present this collection, based on papers presented by a preeminent group of scholars at a Byzantine studies conference at the University of Birmingham.

Illustrations

viii

Acknowledgements

x

Abbreviations

x

Introduction

1

(3)

Sergei Hackel

`The Byzantine Saint': The XIVth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

4

(7)

Anthony Bryer

ORIGINS

Pachomios and the Idea of Sanctity

11

(14)

Henry Chadwick

Hellenistic and Oriental Origins

25

(6)

Han J. W. Drijvers

THE SAINT AND SOCIETY

The Politicisation of the Byzantine Saint

31

(12)

Susan Ashbrook Harvey

The Political Saint of the Eleventh Century

43

(8)

Rosemary Morris

The Byzantine Holy Man in the Twelfth Century

51

(16)

Paul Magdalino

Saints and Sainthood in the Early Palaiologan Period

67

(21)

Ruth Macrides

Saintete et Pouvoir

88

(18)

Evelyne Patlagean

The Holy Fool

106

(11)

Lennart Ryden

THE LIFE AS GENRE

The `Low Level' Saint's Life in the Early Byzantine World

117

(11)

Robert Browning

The Saint as a Symbol

128

(13)

Michel van Esbroeck

St Polychronius and his Companions-but which Polychronius?

141

(14)

Anna Crabbe

The Acta Sanctorum and Bollandist Methodology

155

(9)

Flor Van Ommeslaeghe

Self-Canonisation: the `Partial Account' of Nikephoros Blemmydes

164

(7)

Joseph A. Munitiz

THE SAINT IN CULT AND ART

The Traffic in Relics: some Late Roman Evidence

171

(10)

E. D. Hunt

The Role of the Byzantine Saint in the Development of the Icon Cult

181

(6)

Nicholas Gendle

The Mass-Produced Byzantine Saint (summary)

187

(3)

David Buckton

The Forty in Art (summary)

190

(5)

Zaga A. Gavrilovic

The Iconography of the Byzantine Saint in the Illuminations of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (summary)

195

(1)

Vera D. Likhacheva

The Panegyris of the Byzantine Saint

196

(33)

Speros Vryonis Jr.

Contributors

229

(3)

Index

232

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