Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucial insight to the development of religious thought and practice,

When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O’Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Go

This book shows how a set of great stories changed the political playing field in an early medieval society.

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