Abstract Although most accounts of Christian encounters with Muslims in the period between eleventh and thirteenth centuries pay particular attention to conflict violence, a body hagiographical texts emanating from monastic circles points different kind approach. In this article I foreground three examples Italo-Greek saints’ lives tenth early which saints question treat whom they encounter as ...

This article brings to light several examples of the hagiographic plays staged in Italy during 1950s and early 1960s parishes, schools, oratories. The begins with a brief introduction continued tradition staging lives saints for educational purposes, which focuses on origins, aims, main characteristics theatre young people Salesians, order founded by Don Bosco 1859. Next, it offers panorama per...

My recent research on an early female bhakti saint brought to the fore differences between her perspective as represented in poetry attributed and medieval biographer’s representation of concerns. Through that study, widespread academic use scholarship traditional biographies interpret saints became especially visible problematic me. In this experimental essay, I consider what patterns we might...

so far, moral features have been divided into absolute and relative, individual and social, temporary and permanent and so on. the least advantage of these divisions and separations is a help to moral studies and a better and systematic understanding of moral values and anti-values for moral doers. in this essay according to a cause and effect, and necessary relationship which might be among so...

the time'32-mainly the second half of the fourteenth century. Why these two 'medical' saints were so little regarded in England is-a mystery, especially when one considers their widespread cult almost throughout Europe and Asia Minor, particularly during the Middle Ages. The Surgeons of Paris, for example, dedicated their College to St. C8me on its foundation in the twelfth century but no simil...

In her article, "Holy Fools, Secular Saints, and Illiterate Saviors in American Literature and Popular Culture," Dana Heller identifies and analyzes characteristics of the holy fool figure in American literature and culture. Heller defines the holy fool, or divine idiot, as a figure central to U.S. myths of nation. One encounters such figures in American literature as well as in American folklo...

The picture representing St. Catarine surrounded by virgins and martyrs (front page) was painted by friar Serafin Schön, in 1631, for the altar of St. Catherine in the Sanctuary of the Mother of God at Trsat near Rijeka. The church and the Franciscan monastery were built in the 15th century. The church is the oldest and best-known Croatian shrine of the Virgin Mary (1,2). In the center of this ...