List #3: Byzantine Hagiography

Primary Sources:

Artemios. The Miracles of St. Artemios:  A Collection of Miracle Stories by an Anonymous Author of Seventh-Century Byzantium.  Edited by Virgil S. Crisafulli and John W. Nesbitt; translated by Virgil S. Crisafulli, with an introduction by John W. Nesbitt and commentary by Virgil S. Crisafulli and John W. Nesbitt ; supplemented by a reprinted Greek text and an essay by John F. Haldon.  Leiden: Brill, 1997.

Athanasios I of Constantinople.  Faith Healing in Late Byzantium:  The Posthumous Miracles of the Patriarch Athanasios I of Constantinople by Theoktistos the Stoudite.  Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot.  Brookline, MA:  Hellenic College Press, 1983.

Barlaam.  [St. John Damascene]:  Barlaam and Ioasaph.  Loeb Classical Library 34.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.                                                  

Byzantine Defenders of Images:  Eight Saints’ Lives in English Translation.  Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot.  Byzantine Saints’ Lives in Translation 2.  Washington:  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996.

George of Choziba.  The Life of Saint George of Choziba and the Miracles of the Most Holy Mother of God at Choziba:  Antony of Choziba.  Translated by Tim Vivian and N. Athanassakis.  San Francisco:  International Scholars Publications, 1994.

Macrina.  Life in Gregory of Nyssa: Ascetical Works. Translated by Virginia Woods Callahan.  Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1967.  Pp. 159-91.

Nicholas of Sion.  The Life of St. Nicholas of Sion.  Edited and translated by Ihor Sevcenko and Nancy Patterson Sevcenko.  The Archbishop Iakonos Library of Ecclesiastical and Historical Sources 10.  Brookline, MA:  Hellenic College Press, 1984.

Holy Women of Byzantium:  Ten Saints’ Lives in English Translation.  Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot.  Washington DC:  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1996.

Ignatios the Deacon  The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios. Edited and translated by Stephanos Efthymiadis.  Brookfield, VT.: Ashgate, 1998.

Lead Seals:  John Cotsonis. “The Contribution of Byzantine Lead Seals to the Study of the Cult of the Saints (Sixth-Twelfth Century)."  Byzantion 75 (2005): 383-497.

Miracles.  Miracle Tales from Byzantium. Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot and Scott Fitzgerald Johnson. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 12.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Nikon.  The Life of St. Nikon.  Edited and translated by Denis F. Sullivan.  The Archbishop Iakonos Library of Ecclesiastical and Historical Sources 14.  Brookline, MA:  Hellenic College Press, 1987.  

Pelagia.  Pélagie la pénitente:  Métamorphoses d’une légende.  2 vols.  Paris:  Études augustiniennes, 1981 and 1984.

Stephan the Younger.  La Vie d’Étienne le Jeune.  Edited and translated [into French] by Marie-France Auzèpy.  Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs 3.  Aldershot, UK:  Variorum, 1997.

Tarasios.  The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios by Ignatios the Deacon (BHG 1698):  Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary.  By Stephanos Efthymiadis.  Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs 4.  Brookfield VT:  Variorum Ashgate Publishing, 1998.

Three Byzantine Saints:  Contemporary Biographies.  Translated by Elizabeth Dawes and Norman H. Baynes.  Oxford:  Basil Blackwell, 1948. 

    Major texts in Greek, sometimes with Latin translations, are in Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologia [TTU microfiche]; and in the Acta Sanctorum [TTU microfilm].  These were available on-line at Documenta Catholica but that site has pulled back some of its material (copy-right problems?).  .Italo-Greek material has been edited, often with Italian translations, by a variety of little Italian research institutions.  Middle Byzantine texts are available in Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database.  An overview of the range of this material is in John W. Nesbitt, “A Geographical and Chronological Guide to Greek Saint Lives.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica, 35(2) (1969):  444-489.

Secondary Sources:                             

Abrahamse, Dorothy.  “Byzantine Views of the West in the Early Crusade Period:  The Evidence of Hagiography.”  In The Meeting of Two Worlds:  Cultural Exchange between East and West during the Period of the Crusades, edited by Vladimir P. Goss and Christine Verzár Bornstein.  Studies in Medieval Culture 21.  Kalamazoo:  Medieval Institute Publications, 1986.  Pp. 189-200.                     

Abrahamse, Dorothy.  “Images of Childhood in Early Byzantine Hagiography.” Journal of Psychohistory 2 (1979): 497-517.

Abrahamse, Dorothy. “The Transformations of the Saint in Early Medieval Byzantium.”  Byzantine Studies 2 (1975): 122-37.

Beck, Hans-Georg.  Kirche und theologische Literatur im Byzantinischen Reich.  Byzantinisches Handbuch, Pt. 2(1).  Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, Sect. 12.  Munich:  C.H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1959.  Part of a weighty and important series of German “Handbücher.”  Read the sections on “Hagiographie.”

The Byzantine Saint:  University of Birmingham Fourteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies.  Edited by Sergei Hackel.   Studies Supplementary to Sobornost 5.  London:  Fellowship of St Alban and Sergius, 1981.

da Costa-Louillet, G. “Saints de Grèce aux VIIIe, IXe et Xe Siècles.” Byzantion 31 (1961):  309-369.

da Costa-Louillet, G. “Saints de Sicile et d’Italie méridionale aux VIIe, IXe et Xe siècles.” Byzantion 29-30 (1959-1960):  89-173.

Delierneux, “Virilité physique et sainteté féminine dans l’hagiographie orientale du IVe au VIIe s.” Byzantion 67 (1997): 179-243.

Efthymiadis, Stephanos, ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography. 2 vols. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011 and 2014.

Efthymiadis, Stephanos  “The Function of the Holy Man in Asia Minor in the Middle Byzantine Period,” Pp. 151-61, of Byzantine Asia Minor (6^th-12^th Cent.), edited by Stelios Lampakis.  National Hellenic Research Foundation International Symposium 6. Hellenism:  Ancient, Medieval, Modern 27.  Athens:  Institute for Byzantine Research, 1998.

Harvey, Susan Ashbrook.  Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of Eastern Saints.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Hussey, Joan M.  The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire.  Oxford:  Clarendon, 1986.

Hussey, Joan M.  “Trades and Crafts in the VIth and VIIth Centuries as Viewed in the Lives of the Saints.” Byzantinoslavica 37 (1976): 11-35.

Kazhdan, Alaxander P. “Byzantine Hagiography and Sex in the Fifth to Thirteenth Century.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 44 (190): 131-43.

Maguire, Henry. The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1996.

Papaconstantinou, Arietta.  Le culte des saints en Ėgypte, des Byzantines aux Abassides.  L’apport des inscriptions et des papyrus grecs et coptes.  Le monde Byzantine.  Paris: CNRS, 2001.

Papaconstantinou, Arietta. Writing True Stories: Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.

Patlagean, Evelyne.  “À Byzance:  Ancienne hagiographie byzantine et histoire sociale.” Annales 23 (1968):  106-26.  Rpt. in Structure sociale, famille, chrétienté à Byzance.  London:  Variorum Reprints, 1981.  Same pagination.   Translated by Jane Hodgkin as “Ancient Byzantine Hagiography and Social History.”  In Saints and Their Cults:  Studies in Religious Sociology, Folklore and History.  Edited by Stephen Wilson.  Cambridge, England:  Cambridge University Press, 1983.  Pp. 101-21.     

Peeters, Paul.  Orient et Byzance:  Le tréfonds oriental de l’hagiographie byzantine.  Subsidia Hagiographica 26.  Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1950.

Petersen, Joan M.  “Dead or Alive?  The Holy Man as Healer in East and West in the Late Sixth Century.”  Journal of Medieval History 9 (1983): 91-98.

Spidlik, Tomás.  The Spirituality of the Christian East: A Systematic Handbook.  Translated by Anthony P. Gythiel.  Cistercian Studies Series 79.  Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1986.

Sevcenko, Ihor.  “Hagiography of the Iconoclast Period.”  In Iconoclasm, edited by Anthony Bryer and Judith Herrin.  Birmingham, England:  University of Birmingham Center for Byzantine Studies, 1977.  Reprinted in Ideology, Letters, and Culture in the Byzantine World.  Collected Studies 155.  London:  Variorum Reprints, 1982.

Talbot, Alice-Mary. “Old Wine in New Bottles:  The Rewriting of Saints’ Lives in the Paleologan Period.” In The Twilight of Byzantium:  Aspects of Cultural and Religious History of the Late Byzantine Empire, edited by Slobodan Curcic and Doula Mouriki.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1991.  Pp. 15-26.

White, Monica. Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.