That some of the ancient manuscripts, historical chronicles, and
hagiographical texts in Ethiopia were written about, and preserved by, women.
Green carefully filters out a series of shop-worn scenarios, such as over-reliance on the etymological centrality of the term suf, the diachronic notion that ascetics/asceticism yielded definitively to mystics/mysticism, and the "historical structuralist" attribution of seminal influence to Nestorian Christian
hagiographical sources.
While such a dichotomy was not uncommon in
hagiographical texts as it served the didactic purpose of polarizing non-Christians as cruel heathens, highlighting the injustice done to the heroine, it is also an interesting point of reference to the ideas on magic and superstition discussed earlier.
State media have rolled out round-the-clock
hagiographical coverage of the late president.
The key moment in "Justin Bieber's Believe,'' the new
hagiographical film, comes in the second half, in a segment that touches ever so lightly upon Bieber's tumultuous public image over the last year.
IT IS difficult not to feel sorry for veteran Lucknow- based journalist Sunita Aron for the timing of her largely
hagiographical book Winds of Change on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
He sets out an interpretive framework for understanding both Lewis' accomplishment and the critical preoccupations of Lewis studies, which he finds to have helped generate uncreative,
hagiographical, and thus mediocre books.
Benedetti discusses Marinella's life and works that cover different literary genres, from her
hagiographical texts on Saint Colomba, Saint Francis, Saint Justina, Saint Catherine of Siena and on the Virgin Mary (some of which are in prose, some in ottava rima, and some a mixture of the two), her allegorical poem Amore innamorato et impazzato, a psychomachy which "ends with the triumph of rationality and faith" (10), her Rime sacre (mainly sonnets and madrigals), her pastoral novel Arcadia felice, her epic poem Enrico, celebrating the fourth crusade (which ended with the sack of Christian Constantinople only to enrich Venice), and her famous feminist treatise, Le nobilta et eccellenze delle donne.
Apart from her, the
hagiographical story of Mother Erene, a contemporary female leader in the Coptic Orthodox Church, is mentioned.
The literary evidence addressed in Hourihane's book covers a diverse arc--from biblical (all four Gospels, Acts and Timothy), historical (Philo of Alexandria, Flavius Josephus, Cornelius Tacitus) and theological (Origen, Eusebius, Chrysostom) to apocryphal (especially the Gospel of Nicodemus or Acta Pilati),
hagiographical (Legenda Aurea, Meditationes Vitae Christi) and the dramatic (La Vengeance de Nostre-Seigneur and other Passion Plays).
Evidence for this is even more scant, as the majority of lay people were illiterate, but letters and charters of kings, secular writing such as the satiric Vision of Mac Conglinne, and
hagiographical sources yield some clues.
So, given our biases, we acknowledge the righteous encomia and
hagiographical accounts that accompanied his death as "obvious," even normative.
