Introduction This article looks at the messages given by factual TV programmes to audiences about work, and, in particular, the models of working behaviour that have been presented to them during the period following the 2007‐8 financial crisis. It focuses particularly, but not exclusively, on daytime TV, which has an audience made up disproportionately of people who have low incomes and are po...

Abstract This paper examines the patronage of cult SS. Boris and Gleb through reign Volodimir Monomakh (r. 1113–1125) by using textual criticism, memory studies, works on medieval Christian materiality. It revisits chronology main texts (the Primary Chronicle , two hagiographical tales Nestor’s Lesson concerning life murder saints); contaminated that were written under Monomakh. analysis offers...

For centuries, theologists, historians, archaeologists, petrologists, and others had been interested in a story about Christian martyrs known as Passio Sanctorum Quattuor Coronatorum. It is a hagiographic manuscript from the 4th century which describes the martyrdom and death of two separate groups of Christians who suffered Diocletian's persecution. One group lived in Pannonia and the other in...

In early Christianity, and in the domain of Byzantium in particular, the devil's interference with man took two distinct forms which may be identified as "intrusion" and "internalisation". The intruding form of the devil was presented in the hagiographies of popular saints, while the internalisation form was presented and elaborated upon by the Fathers of the Church. Intrusion was the most stri...