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A provocative, stimulating, and complex book, which will reward a close reading by advanced students of Greek hagiography. -Speculum Lucid, innovative, beautifully written, a real contribution not just to the scholarship of the early Byzantine world but to conceptions of authorship and composition on a theoretical plane. -Margaret E. Mullett, Queens University Belfast Derek Krueger's monograph provides detailed insight into an important part of Byzantine cultural history. His study fills a gap in the field of examinations of selfhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, a field that previously focussed mainly on western Christianity and monastic contexts. ... Liturgical Subjects will be a welcome resource for both scholars already familiar with this period, and graduate students in the fields of Byzantine or Religious studies. -KULT A delight to read. Erudite yet accessible... A coherent reading of the practice of hagiographical writing as an ascetic tradition which both celebrated the author as creator and placed him in the context of a scribe whose task was to record less his own view of holiness than heavenly insights. -Mystics Quarterly

Lucid, innovative, beautifully written, a real contribution not just to the scholarship of the early Byzantine world but to conceptions of authorship and composition on a theoretical plane. -Margaret E. Mullett, Queens University Belfast A provocative, stimulating, and complex book, which will reward a close reading by advanced students of Greek hagiography. -Speculum A delight to read. Erudite yet accessible... A coherent reading of the practice of hagiographical writing as an ascetic tradition which both celebrated the author as creator and placed him in the context of a scribe whose task was to record less his own view of holiness than heavenly insights. -Mystics Quarterly

Lucid, innovative, beautifully written, a real contribution not just to the scholarship of the early Byzantine world but to conceptions of authorship and composition on a theoretical plane. -Margaret E. Mullett, Queens University Belfast A provocative, stimulating, and complex book, which will reward a close reading by advanced students of Greek hagiography. -Speculum A delight to read. Erudite yet accessible... A coherent reading of the practice of hagiographical writing as an ascetic tradition which both celebrated the author as creator and placed him in the context of a scribe whose task was to record less his own view of holiness than heavenly insights. -Mystics Quarterly

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Derek Krueger is Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City.

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