Personalities and currents in the hagiology of the Middle Byzantine and Palaeologan period

Specific Foundation / Core

After the successful completion of the course the postgraduate students will be able to: - have knowledge of the specific issues of hagiography in middel Byzantine and paleologian period - know in depth the major writers of hagiographic works from the 8th to the 15th c. - research the sources and secondary literature

1. Hagiography of the Iconoclastic period: major features and trends 2. Saint Theodore the Studite and his hagiographic work 3. The ecumenical patriarchs of the iconoclastic period and their hagiographic work; Patriarch Tarasius and Methodius I the Confessor 4. Patriarch Photius and his hagiographic work 5. The imperial hagiography of the 10th c.: Leo VI the Wise, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and Imperail Menaia 6. The hagiographic translation of the middle Byzantine period: persons and theory 7. The hagiographic work of Niceta Paphlagon and of Symeon the Translator 8. The Byzantine hagiography in the 11th and 12th c. 9. Representatives of the Byzantine hagiography of the 13th c.: Theodore Metochite and Constantine Acropolite 10. The hagiographic prime of the Paleologian period 11. The theological debates and hagiography of Hesychasm 12. The grear representatives of the 14th c.: Philotheos Kokkinos, Nicephorus Grehoras, Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos, patriarch Callistus I 13. Trens and representatives of the 15th c.: the development of literature about the neomartyrs - Macarius Makris, Symeon of Thessalonica, Gennadius II Scholarios, Manuel of Corinth

hagiography, iconoclasm, panegyrics, translations, menaia, synaxarion of Constantinople

13-01-2015