This Companion is the work of an international team of specialists and represents the first comprehensive survey ever produced in the field of Byzantine hagiogr

For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms.

This book is the work of an international group of experts and is addressed to a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, histo

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