Hagiography in Byzantium: Literature, Social History and Cult

Stephanos Efthymiadis is a professor at the Open University of Cyprus

• Contents: Preface; New developments in hagiography: the rediscovery of Byzantine hagiography; Part A Late Antiquity: Living in a city and living in a scetis: the dream of Eustathios the Banker (BHG Nov. Auct. 1317d); A day and ten months in the life of a lonely bachelor: the other Byzantium in Miracula S. Artemii 18 and 22; De debito bis soluto: an edifying story on the administered oath (BHG Novum Auctarium 1317n); Two Gregories and three genres: autobiography, autohagiography and hagiography. Part B The Age of Iconoclasm and Post-Iconoclasm: John of Sardis and the metaphrasis of the Passio of St. Nikephoros the Martyr (BHG 1334); Le panégyrique de S. Théophane le Confesseur par S. Théodore Stoudite (BHG 1792b). édition critique du texte intégral; The Byzantine hagiographer and his audience in the 9th and 10th centuries; Hagiographica varia (9th-10th c.); The function of the Holy Man in Asia Minor in the Middle Byzantine period; Establishing a holy lineage: Theodore the Stoudite's funerary catechism for his mother; Le miracle et les saints durant et après le second iconoclasme; Medieval Thessalonike and the Miracles of its saints: big and small demands made on exclusive rights (9th-12th centuries); D'Orient en Occident mais étranger aux deux mondes: messages et renseignements tirés de la Vie de Saint Nicolas le Pèlerin (BHL 6223); Le monastère de la Source à Constantinople et ses deux recueils de miracles: entre hagiographie et patriographie. Part C Late Byzantium: Late Byzantine collections of miracles and their implications; Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.

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