The Byzantine Saint

Front Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Frontspiece......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
\'The Byzantine Saint\': The XIVth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies - ANTHONY BRYER......Page 11
ORIGINS......Page 16
Pachomios and the Idea of Sanctity - HENRY CHADWICK......Page 17
Hellenistic and Oriental Origins - HAN J.W. DRIJVERS......Page 31
THE SAINT AND SOCIETY......Page 40
The Politicisation of the Byzantine Saint - SUSAN ASHBROOK HARVEY......Page 42
The Political Saint of the Eleventh Century - ROSEMARY MORRIS......Page 48
The Byzantine Holy Man in the Twelfth Century - PAUL MAGDALINO......Page 56
Saints and Sainthood in the Early Palaiologan Period - RUTH MACRIDES......Page 72
Saintete et Pouvoir - EVELYNE PATLAGEAN......Page 93
The Holy Fool - LENNART RYDEN......Page 111
THE LIFE AS GENRE......Page 119
The \'Low Level\' Saint\'s Life in the Early Byzantine World - ROBERT BROWNING......Page 120
The Saint as a Symbol - MICHEL VAN ESBROECK......Page 131
St Polychronius and his Companions- but which Polychronius?  - ANNA CRABBE......Page 144
The Acta Sanctorum and Bollandist Methodology - FLOR VAN OMMESLAEGHE......Page 158
Self-Canonisation: the \'Partial Account\' of Nikephoros Blemmydes - JOSEPH A. MUNITIZ......Page 167
THE SAINT IN CULT AND ART......Page 172
The Traffic in Relics: some Late Roman Evidence - E.D.HUNT......Page 173
The Role of the Byzantine Saint in the Development of the Icon Cult - NICHOLAS GENDLE......Page 183
The mass-produced Byzantine Saint - DAVID BUCKTON......Page 189
The Forty in Art - Z.A. GAVRILOVIĆ......Page 192
The Iconography of the Byzantine Saint in the Illuminations of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries - VERA LIKHACHEVA......Page 197
The Panegyris ofthe Byzantine Saint: a study in the nature of a medieval institution, its origins and fate - SPEROS VRYONIS Jr......Page 198
Contributors......Page 231
Index nominum......Page 234