Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Transverse the position of women

the position of women

but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines

reflective and analytical approach to the study of literature

The next section deals with the efficacy of the confessional and the role of the casuistry of the Church in attempting to mould sexual mores

In a series of fascinating portraits of individual women who resisted patriarchal indoctrination

Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Transverse the position of womenFor an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social