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hagiographyLiterature describing the lives of the saints. Christian hagiography includes stories of saintly monks, bishops, princes, and virgins, with accounts of their martyrdom and of the miracles connected with their relics, tombs, icons, or statues. Written as early as the 2nd century and popular during the Middle Ages, hagiographies focus on lives of individual saints or on stories of a class of saints (e.g., martyrs). hagiography 1. the writing of the lives of the saints 2. biography of the saints 3. any biography that idealizes or idolizes its subject How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These programmes generally lurch between the hagiographical and the 'real-life' expose, but in each case the individual stands dominant but isolated; at times, wholly removed from his social context. Weigel is still the person to go to for fact-checking, though less for interpretation, since there is a whiff of the hagiographical about it. The climax of this early hagiographical tendency appeared in Vasari's biographies of 1550 and 1568, which provided such details as the image of the artist weeping as he painted a Crucifixion, and the pope's plan to appoint him archbishop of Florence. |
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