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The Belgian Jesuit Hippolyte Delehaye (1859-1941) was a
distinguished member of the Society of Bollandists, named for the
seventeenth-century Jesuit Jean Bolland, who was assigned the task
of collating and editing the various versions of the lives of
saints and martyrs. This work in French was published in 1909, and
considers the various legends, originating in the Greek Orthodox
Church, about the lives of soldier-saints, from the most famous,
such as St George and St Theodore, to those, such as St Procopius
of Scythopolis, where there is not unanimous agreement that they
were soldiers at all. A long appendix gives the Greek texts (with
variants) of several versions of the lives and martyrdoms of Sts
Theodore, Eutropius, Procopius, Mercurius and Demetrius. Delehaye
in his introduction points out that Christianity spread rapidly
through the Roman army, and that this accounts in part for its
dissemination across the Roman world.
H. Delehaye's work on Greek hagiography remains fundamental and a
collection of his research on the Byzantine sources has long been
called for. This volume assembles his articles on the Metaphrastes'
compilation brought up to date by Fr. Halkin with a bibliographical
addendum, and the first publication of the foundation typica of two
important monasteries in Constantinople - a mine of religious and
prosographical information on the city and its upper classes in the
Paleologan period.
The Legends of the saint-facts about the saints. How often these
two are thought to be the same thing, and everything which we read
in saints' biographies we take to be unadorned truth. But this is
simply not so-the lives of the saints have from the earlier times
been a mixture of fact, legend, fabrication and confusion. As Fr.
Delehaye says: 'The conditions in which many accounts of martyrs
and lives of saints were composed are too little known to people in
general to allow of a ground of understanding...We therefore
believe we shall be doing a useful work by trying to set out, more
clearly than usual, the various kinds of writings our pious authors
produced, by outlining the origins of their compositions and by
showing how far they were from being protected from making errors
that exact history is bound to point out. The aim of this book is
to briefly show the spirit in which hagiographical documents should
be read, to sketch the method for discriminating between materials
that the historian can use and those that he should leave to poets
and artists as their property, and to put readers on their guard
against being led away by formulas and preconceived ideas. There is
no question of our waging war on legends. It would be a senseless
thing to do...The work of legend can be numbered amongst the great
unconscious natural forces. As such one cannot ignore it. Only, do
not mistake it for history.' Since 1905, when it was first
published, Delehaye's study has been acclaimed as a classic example
of impartial scholarship. His great learning, the balance of his
mind, the economy of his style, the wit and humanity which inform
the whole - these make a fascinating book, a delight to read for
sheer enjoyment, and an invaluable source of information. The new
translation, by Donald Attwater, does full justice to the original,
so that the flavour of Delehaye's personality and style are
conveyed in the English. The text used is that of the revised
edition of 1955.
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An Analysis Of The Problem, From Pagan Survivals To Current
Misrepresentations.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
An Analysis Of The Problem, From Pagan Survivals To Current
Misrepresentations.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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