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Project
Holiness and Power in Syriac Hagiographic Collections
This research project explores the relationship between holiness and political power in a selection of lives of saints preserved in Syriac hagiographical collections. It is based on the philological study of both these writings and the manuscripts in which they are preserved, and analyses the ideological reasons according to which the collections were formed in the course of time.
Date:1 Dec 2015 → 30 Nov 2019
Keywords:hagiography, Syriac Literature, narratology, State-Church relations
Disciplines:Theory and methodology of literary studies, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Language studies, Theology and religious studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Other languages and literary studies