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dc.contributor.authorPalmer, James Trevor
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-30T16:30:09Z
dc.date.available2018-11-30T16:30:09Z
dc.date.issued2018-11
dc.identifier256485383
dc.identifier076c8a03-fe2d-4b24-9bac-cabab9a8f8ca
dc.identifier.citationPalmer , J T 2018 , ' The global eminent life : sixth-century collected biographies from Gregory of Tours to Huijiao of Jiaxiang Temple ' , Medieval Worlds. Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies , vol. 8 , pp. 22-41 . https://doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no8_2018s22en
dc.identifier.issn2412-3196
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-1933-0670/work/52888700
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/16590
dc.descriptionISBN: 9783700184416en
dc.description.abstractSanctity and the holy have been useful concepts for scholars seeking to compare religious cultures. This paper seeks to extend the project of comparisons by investigating the organisational contexts that produced collected biographies about holy women and men. It focuses on case studies from Latin and Byzantine Christianity and Buddhist China in the sixth century CE to highlight useful similarities in the authors’ conceptions of their work in the face of fluid traditions and contested religious environments. It also sketches some of the ways in which manuscript production and library organisation helped to generate the texts we have. Without consideration of these organisational factors, it is argued, the traditional project of comparing holy figures is on uncertain ground.
dc.format.extent313648
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMedieval Worlds. Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studiesen
dc.subjectCollected biographiesen
dc.subjectHagiographyen
dc.subjectManuscriptsen
dc.subjectLibrariesen
dc.subjectGregory of Toursen
dc.subjectGregory the Greaten
dc.subjectJohn of Ephesusen
dc.subjectCyril of Scythopolisen
dc.subjectBaochangen
dc.subjectHuijiaoen
dc.subjectMahāyāna Buddhismen
dc.subjectChristianityen
dc.subjectD111 Medieval Historyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccD111en
dc.titleThe global eminent life : sixth-century collected biographies from Gregory of Tours to Huijiao of Jiaxiang Templeen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1553/medievalworlds_no8_2018s22
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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