Minov, Sergey and Ruani, Flavia <br/><br/>
Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond 

 - Leiden  Brill  2021 
 - 372p 
 - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity - 20 .
<br/><br/>PART 1<br/>Texts as Literature<br/>1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiography <br/>Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent<br/>2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of<br/>Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Medieval Syriac<br/>Milieu <br/>Reyhan Durmaz<br/>3. Objects as Narrative Devices in Syriac Hagiography <br/>Flavia Ruani<br/>PART 2<br/>Saints Textualized<br/>4. Pope Sylvester: How to Create a Saint-The Syriac Contribution to the<br/>Sylvestrian Hagiography <br/>Annunziata Di Rienzo<br/>5. The Syriac Martyrdom of the Mimes and the Performance of Biblical<br/>Recitation: Questions of Power and Contexts <br/>Cornelia Horn<br/>6. The Syriac Life of Mar Yaret the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a<br/>Monastic Holy Man in Early Medieval Mesopotamia <br/>Sergey Minov<br/>7. Prose, Poetry, and Hagiography: The Martyrdoms of Jacob the Persian<br/>and Tahmizgard in Syriac Story and Song <br/>Adam Carter Bremer-McCollum<br/>8. The Memory of the Persian Martyrs in St Nikodemos' Synaxaristes<br/>(1819) <br/>Sebastian P. Brock<br/>PART 3<br/>Beyond the Texts<br/>9. Between Gift and Commodity: The Distribution of Tokens and Material<br/>Substances at the Pilgrimage Sites of Stylites <br/>Dina Boero<br/>10. St Stephen in Amida in a New mimro of Jacob of Serugh: Christianity vs<br/>Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious Shrines <br/>Muriel Debié 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004445291 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>E66  / M666