The hagiography of Byzantine Cyprus saints, hagiographers, and texts (fourth to thirteen century)
"In an empire such as Byzantium, where the large urban centres monopolised cultural activity and literary creation, writing texts in praise of local saints offered a noteworthy incentive for literary expression on the periphery. Between the establishment of Christianity on the island in the fou...
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Cambridge New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2025
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Table of Contents:
- Sanctity and hagiographic literature on Cyprus
- In the footsteps of the apostles : the hagiography of the Apostle Barnabas and the first bishops of Cyprus
- The hagiography of the fourth-century bishops of Cyprus
- St Ioannes the Almsgiver (d. 620) : the Cypriot patriarch of Alexandria and his hagiographical tradition (BHG 886-888e)
- A special case : St Artemon and his life or Passio (BHG 175)
- Two more seventh-century Cypriot hagiographers
- The hagiography of Cyprus after late antiquity
- An end and a beginning : Cypriot hagiography in the hundred years of Latin rule