Hagiography

//ˌhæɡiˈɒɡɹəfi//

Synonyms for "hagiography" (70 found)

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Translations

57 translations across 22 languages.

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Armenian

2 entries
  • սրբագրություն noun (biography of a saint)
  • սրբախոսություն noun (biography of a saint)

Bulgarian

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  • животоописание noun (biography of a saint)

Catalan

3 entries
  • hagiografia noun (study of saints)
  • hagiografia noun (biography of a saint)
  • hagiologia noun (study of saints)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 吹捧性的傳記 /吹捧性的传记 noun (biography which expresses reverence)
  • 吹捧性的傳記 /吹捧性的传记 noun (biography which is uncritically supportive)
  • 聖徒傳 /圣徒传 noun (biography of a saint)
  • 聖徒研究 /圣徒研究 noun (study of saints)

Danish

2 entries
  • hagiografi noun (study of saints)
  • hagiografi noun (biography of a saint)

Dutch

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  • hagiografie noun (study of saints)
  • hagiografie noun (biography of a saint)
  • hagiografie noun (biography which expresses reverence)
  • heiligenleven noun (biography of a saint)

Finnish

4 entries
  • hagiografia noun (biography of a saint)
  • hagiografia noun (biography which expresses reverence)
  • hagiografia noun (biography which is uncritically supportive)
  • hagiologia noun (study of saints)

French

2 entries
  • hagiographie noun (study of saints)
  • hagiographie noun (biography of a saint)

Galician

1 entries
  • haxiografía noun (study of saints)

Georgian

2 entries
  • ჰაგიოგრაფია noun (study of saints)
  • ჰაგიოგრაფია noun (biography of a saint)

German

2 entries
  • Lebensbeschreibung der Heiligen noun (study of saints)
  • Lebensbeschreibung der Heiligen noun (biography of a saint)

Greek

1 entries
  • αγιολογία noun (study of saints)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • hagiográfia noun (biography of a saint)

Italian

2 entries
  • agiografía noun (study of saints)
  • agiografía noun (biography of a saint)

Macedonian

3 entries
  • жи́тие noun (biography of a saint)
  • хагиогра́фија noun (study of saints)
  • хагиогра́фија noun (biography of a saint)

Persian

3 entries
  • تذکره noun (biography of a saint)
  • تذکره noun (biography which expresses reverence)
  • تذکرهنویسی noun (study of saints)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • hagiografia noun (study of saints)
  • hagiografia noun (biography of a saint)
  • hagiografia noun (biography which expresses reverence)
  • hagiografia noun (biography which is uncritically supportive)

Russian

4 entries
  • агиогра́фия noun (study of saints)
  • агиогра́фия noun (biography of a saint)
  • жити́йная литерату́ра noun (biography of a saint)
  • житие́ noun (study of saints)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • žitije noun (biography of a saint)
  • житије noun (biography of a saint)

Spanish

2 entries
  • hagiografía noun (study of saints)
  • hagiografía noun (biography of a saint)

Swedish

1 entries
  • hagiografi noun (biography of a saint)

Tibetan

1 entries
  • རྣམ་ཐར noun (biography of a saint)

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The second half of the eleventh century saw a notable surge of interest in hagiography throughout England, which meant that many of the Anglo-Saxon saints of earlier eras were furnished, often for the first time, with a Latin Vita.

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Jacques LeGoff remarks, 'Hagiography tells us much about the mental infrastructure [of the middle ages]: the interpenetration between the tangible world and the supernatural world, the common nature of the corporeal and psychic, are the conditions which make miracles and related phenomena possible.

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Charters, wills, and monastic rules offer evidence for this transformation, but it is hagiography and its double-scoped discourse that illuminates it best, and we will start with a vita that pursued the question of peroperty and prestige more comprehensively than the rest, the Vita Sadalbergae.

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Churchill revisionism, of course, is almost as much of a cottage industry as Churchill hagiography.

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