#hagiography — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hagiography, aggregated by home.social.
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March 03: the Feast of Saint Katharine Drexel
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January 26: the Feast of Saint Timothy and Titus
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Hell, this ABC article reads worse than a press release from Albanese's office.
Sir Albanese the brave kills the wicked dragon and rescues the fair white maiden.
Nauseating.
#AnthonyAlbanese #Hagiography #JacobGreber #AusPol -
careful self reflection is a sign of strength
But it would be uncouth for me to pretend that there isn’t some self-interest involved. Being in charge of a social media project is, turns out, quite the stressful endeavour, and I don’t have the right personality for it. I think I need not elaborate that the passion so many feel for social media does not always manifest in healthy ways. You are to be compared with tech billionaires, with their immense wealth and layered support systems, but with none of the money or resources. It manifests in what people expect of you, and how people talk about you. I remember somebody jokingly suggesting that I challenge Elon Musk to a fight (this was during his and Mark Zuckerberg’s martial arts feud), and quietly thinking to myself, I am literally not paid enough for that. I remember also, some Spanish newspaper article that for some reason, concluded that I don’t dress as fashionably as Jeff Bezos, based on the extremely sparse number of pictures of myself I have shared on the web. Over an entire decade, these tiny things chip away at you slowly. Some things chip faster. I steer clear of showing vulnerability online, but there was a particularly bad interaction with a user last summer that made me realise that I need to take a step back and find a healthier relationship with the project, ultimately serving as the impetus to begin this restructuring process.
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as the CEO of mastodon as it completes the transition to a nonprofit. I am sharing this snippet from the article announcing it.
Eugen started mastodon as a self funded project and kept it going years before twitter imploded. This is the writing of a thoughtful, serious, reflective person who deserves to be praised. He didn’t end up the world’s richest billionaire.
However, he sure made a dent in the universe. All the best during recovery and I look forward to mastodon attaining greater heights.
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It's a curiosity of #history that the life of #Siddhartha #Gautama, the historical #Buddha, found its way into #medieval #Christian #hagiography as #Barlaam and #Josaphat. The tale shows how #Buddhist themes such as #renunciation, #moral transformation, and spiritual #awakening, were reframed across languages and faiths. Find out more about this fascinating cross-cultural transmission:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-13-barlaam_and_josaphat/
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Passend zum heutigen Gedenktag des Heiligen #adomnan von #iona (†704) ist mein Beitrag zur **Vita sancti Columbae Adamnani** in der Rubrik »1000 Worte Forschung« @Mittelalterblog erschienen: https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/37313
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To see #Kyiv & to die? The final farewell of archbishop Bruno of Querfurt before his #martyrdom : His bitter letter to king Henry II in 1009.
The scholarship report of Oleksandr Fylypchuk: https://dhip.hypotheses.org/4577
#MedievalStudies #MissionaryHistory #LatinLetters #Christianization #Hagiography #Rus
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I am driven by my emotions.
"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."
"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/another-country
@histodons @psychology @socialpsych @ukraine @israel
#disillusionment #disgust #power #leadership #traitors #personalSafety #feelings #emotions #indignation #moralBeauty #beauty #values #principles #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs #USWars #lawAndOrder #ruleOfLaw #internationalLaw #CambridgeSpies #Cambridge #spies #ColdWar #psychology #Stalin #cult #personalityCult #hagiography #history #ruthlessness #proZionism #WeStandWithIsrael #StandWithIsrael #masculinity #longRead #geopolitics #Zelensky #Ukraine
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They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)
https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/theyre-really-close-to-my-body/
#HackerNews #NineInchNails #RobinFinck #Hagiography #MusicHistory #2020Review #AlternativeRock
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Promoting your patron saint, or How to win favor and influence the powerful https://www.medievalists.net/2022/02/promoting-your-patron-saint-or-how-to-win-favor-and-influence-the-powerful/ #Hagiography
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Saint Anne: Grandmother to the Medieval World https://www.medievalists.net/2022/02/saint-anne-grandmother-medieval/ #Hagiography
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Why Is Saint Maurice Depicted as African? Seven Medieval Theories https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/saint-maurice-african-medieval/ #hagiography #StMaurice #Medieval
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-- Is the Bible an eyewitness account of Jesus’ resurrection? --
(from Dan McClellan)
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The Medieval Cult of Mary’s Hair https://www.medievalists.net/2023/12/medieval-cult-mary-hair/ #Hagiography #Religion
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How Many Medieval Saints Are There? https://www.medievalists.net/2023/11/many-medieval-saints/ #Hagiography
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San Clemente: Man, Legend, Church https://www.medievalists.net/2023/11/san-clemente-man-legend-church/ #Hagiography #MedievalReligon
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#684 C.A. Ralegh Radford et al (eds) - Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, New Series, Vol IV, Part 1. Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro, 1961. #Cornwall #Kernow #CARaleghRadford #AKHamiltonJenkin #HLDouch #MauriceHBizley #RoyalInstitutionOfCornwall #Archaeology #RoundBarrows #Hagiography #BookOfTheDay
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#671 Nicholas Orme - Nicholas Roscarrock's Lives of the Saints: Cornwall and Devon. Devon & Cornwall Record Society, New Series, Volume 35, Exeter, 1992, 1st edition. #NicholasOrme #NicholasRoscarrock #DevonAndCornwallRecordSociety #Devon #Cornwall #Saints #Hagiography #BookOfTheDay
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The unrelenting savagery of of christian #hagiography is pretty darn grim.
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If you're a medievalist attending #IMC2024, come see my hybrid paper on #hagiography and women's asceticism on Wednesday! #S1344
#MedievalStudies #medieval #history #geschichte #histoire #latin #religion #catholicism #gender #literature #philology #latein
@histodons @historikerinnen
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New instance, new #introduction.
I'm a historian, tutor, editor, beginning gardener & aspiring self-hoster. My research focuses on early medieval #hagiography & its function in the pastoral care of the laity, so I think a lot about the intersection of ideology, rhetoric, & praxis.
I enjoy travel & (smartphone) photography, museums, big cities but also nature. I hope to use this account to share my travels and to promote ancient & medieval studies on the fediverse. @medievodons @histodons
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Reagan, like Netanyahu, fought his war without a strategy or plan for what followed. We wound up with the oligarchs and Putin, just as Israel in turn nurtured Hamas.
Thatcher hated only her own nation’s ‘have not’ citizens more than the Soviet Union, and she fought them far harder.
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A brilliant, delightful, and scathing #review of the #book “Elon Musk” by Walter Isaacson, which is more #hagiography than #biography – a must-read:
“Very Ordinary Men”, The Point (https://thepointmag.com/criticism/very-ordinary-men/).
#BookReview #Books #ElonMusk #Tesla #SpaceX #Twitter #Critique
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Dis/ability and Byzantine Hagiography https://www.medievalists.net/2024/02/dis-ability-and-byzantine-hagiography/ #byzantium #disability #hagiography
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Lost Medieval Saint rediscovered in English manuscript https://www.medievalists.net/2024/02/lost-medieval-saint-rediscovered-in-english-manuscript/ #medieval #saints #hagiography
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This is your annual reminder that St Valentine is the patron Saint of people wanting to be cured of fainting so, I dunno, keep those orgasms reasonable okay?
#StValentine #ValentinesDay #Valentines #Saints #Hagiography
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-- Are These The Lies Needed To Convince Us Of A God? --
(from TheSkepTick)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIptstFNWjc#teleologicalArgument #hagiography #apostles #apologetics #conversionStory
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☝️ The *victims* of the regime might be forgiven (option not available inside the empire) if they fail to appreciate the scattered unofficial nostalgia for a leading supporting cadre who served as the Party's 'premier' for a decade while, well, 'stuff' kept happening to them.
Maybe, just maybe comrade Li would have been less extreme as the supreme leader, but isn't that entire point moot since all he really ended up *doing* was rubberstamping the #XiJinping's policies we've all come to love and appreciate?
The #PRC/#CCP stopped "biding time" a decade ago and comrade Li was right in the middle of it as supreme leader's number 2.
#LiKeqiang #hagiography #China #dictatorship #Hongkong #Tibet #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #SouthMongolia #SCS #9dashline #militaryexpansionism #authaxis
@LetaHong @liyuan6 -
☝️ The *victims* of the regime might be forgiven (option not available inside the empire) if they fail to appreciate the scattered unofficial nostalgia for a leading supporting cadre who served as the Party's 'premier' for a decade while, well, 'stuff' kept happening to them.
Maybe, just maybe comrade Li would have been less extreme as the supreme leader, but isn't that entire point moot since all he really ended up *doing* was rubberstamping the #XiJinping's policies we've all come to love and appreciate?
The #PRC/#CCP stopped "biding time" a decade ago and comrade Li was right in the middle of it as supreme leader's number 2.
#LiKeqiang #hagiography #China #dictatorship #Hongkong #Tibet #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #SouthMongolia #SCS #9dashline #militaryexpansionism #authaxis
@LetaHong @liyuan6 -
☝️ The *victims* of the regime might be forgiven (option not available inside the empire) if they fail to appreciate the scattered unofficial nostalgia for a leading supporting cadre who served as the Party's 'premier' for a decade while, well, 'stuff' kept happening to them.
Maybe, just maybe comrade Li would have been less extreme as the supreme leader, but isn't that entire point moot since all he really ended up *doing* was rubberstamping the #XiJinping's policies we've all come to love and appreciate?
The #PRC/#CCP stopped "biding time" a decade ago and comrade Li was right in the middle of it as supreme leader's number 2.
#LiKeqiang #hagiography #China #dictatorship #Hongkong #Tibet #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #SouthMongolia #SCS #9dashline #militaryexpansionism #authaxis
@LetaHong @liyuan6 -
☝️ The *victims* of the regime might be forgiven (option not available inside the empire) if they fail to appreciate the scattered unofficial nostalgia for a leading supporting cadre who served as the Party's 'premier' for a decade while, well, 'stuff' kept happening to them.
Maybe, just maybe comrade Li would have been less extreme as the supreme leader, but isn't that entire point moot since all he really ended up *doing* was rubberstamping the #XiJinping's policies we've all come to love and appreciate?
The #PRC/#CCP stopped "biding time" a decade ago and comrade Li was right in the middle of it as supreme leader's number 2.
#LiKeqiang #hagiography #China #dictatorship #Hongkong #Tibet #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #SouthMongolia #SCS #9dashline #militaryexpansionism #authaxis
@LetaHong @liyuan6 -
☝️ The *victims* of the regime might be forgiven (option not available inside the empire) if they fail to appreciate the scattered unofficial nostalgia for a leading supporting cadre who served as the Party's 'premier' for a decade while, well, 'stuff' kept happening to them.
Maybe, just maybe comrade Li would have been less extreme as the supreme leader, but isn't that entire point moot since all he really ended up *doing* was rubberstamping the #XiJinping's policies we've all come to love and appreciate?
The #PRC/#CCP stopped "biding time" a decade ago and comrade Li was right in the middle of it as supreme leader's number 2.
#LiKeqiang #hagiography #China #dictatorship #Hongkong #Tibet #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #SouthMongolia #SCS #9dashline #militaryexpansionism #authaxis
@LetaHong @liyuan6 -
This chapter argues that tarjamat al-awliyāʼ —“the translation of the saints”—the medieval term for hagiography or sacred biography in Islam, is not a metaphor but an actual process of translation. Instead of translation from one language to another, the “translation of the saints” in hagiography is best understood as translation by means of interpretation, which is one of the meanings of the Arabic term tarjama . Theoretical concepts from the field of translation studies significantly enhance our understanding of the ways in which hagiography “translates” sainthood and promotes a sense of spirituality. Three “bridge concepts”— translation as representation , intercultural translation , and intersemiotic translation — are especially important in hagiographical narratives.
#hagiography #manāqib #translation #sacredbiography @islamicstudies
https://www.academia.edu/93498667/Translating_Sainthood_in_Islamic_Hagiography
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This chapter argues that tarjamat al-awliyāʼ —“the translation of the saints”—the medieval term for hagiography or sacred biography in Islam, is not a metaphor but an actual process of translation. Instead of translation from one language to another, the “translation of the saints” in hagiography is best understood as translation by means of interpretation, which is one of the meanings of the Arabic term tarjama . Theoretical concepts from the field of translation studies significantly enhance our understanding of the ways in which hagiography “translates” sainthood and promotes a sense of spirituality. Three “bridge concepts”— translation as representation , intercultural translation , and intersemiotic translation — are especially important in hagiographical narratives.
#hagiography #manāqib #translation #sacredbiography @islamicstudies
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118533789.ch5
https://www.academia.edu/93498667/Translating_Sainthood_in_Islamic_Hagiography
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This chapter argues that tarjamat al-awliyāʼ —“the translation of the saints”—the medieval term for hagiography or sacred biography in Islam, is not a metaphor but an actual process of translation. Instead of translation from one language to another, the “translation of the saints” in hagiography is best understood as translation by means of interpretation, which is one of the meanings of the Arabic term tarjama . Theoretical concepts from the field of translation studies significantly enhance our understanding of the ways in which hagiography “translates” sainthood and promotes a sense of spirituality. Three “bridge concepts”— translation as representation , intercultural translation , and intersemiotic translation — are especially important in hagiographical narratives.
#hagiography #manāqib #translation #sacredbiography @islamicstudies
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118533789.ch5
https://www.academia.edu/93498667/Translating_Sainthood_in_Islamic_Hagiography
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Narrative Pattern and Genre in Hagiographic Life Writing: Comparative Perspectives from Asia to Europe examines so far mostly unstudied ‘non-occidental’ pre-modern hagiographic texts across disciplines with both philological and narratological approaches. Texts that recount the life of a saint have been labelled ‘hagiography’ and such works have been employed as sources for historical or literary research. However, a text-based definition of the term, not to mention a confirmation of its use on the basis of wider examinations across cultures is still wanting. This volume aims to be a step on this way: eleven contributors examine texts from Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism in the respective source languages. A comprehensive introduction outlines hagiographic life writing; an outlook develops some definitions and suggests a scheme of analysis for future research.
https://www.ebv-berlin.de/epages/15494902.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/15494902/Products/978-3-86893-102-0&Locale=en_GB #hagiography #narratology #narrativity
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Narrative Pattern and Genre in Hagiographic Life Writing: Comparative Perspectives from Asia to Europe examines so far mostly unstudied ‘non-occidental’ pre-modern hagiographic texts across disciplines with both philological and narratological approaches. Texts that recount the life of a saint have been labelled ‘hagiography’ and such works have been employed as sources for historical or literary research. However, a text-based definition of the term, not to mention a confirmation of its use on the basis of wider examinations across cultures is still wanting. This volume aims to be a step on this way: eleven contributors examine texts from Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism in the respective source languages. A comprehensive introduction outlines hagiographic life writing; an outlook develops some definitions and suggests a scheme of analysis for future research.
https://www.ebv-berlin.de/epages/15494902.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/15494902/Products/978-3-86893-102-0&Locale=en_GB #hagiography #narratology #narrativity
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Narrative Pattern and Genre in Hagiographic Life Writing: Comparative Perspectives from Asia to Europe examines so far mostly unstudied ‘non-occidental’ pre-modern hagiographic texts across disciplines with both philological and narratological approaches. Texts that recount the life of a saint have been labelled ‘hagiography’ and such works have been employed as sources for historical or literary research. However, a text-based definition of the term, not to mention a confirmation of its use on the basis of wider examinations across cultures is still wanting. This volume aims to be a step on this way: eleven contributors examine texts from Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism in the respective source languages. A comprehensive introduction outlines hagiographic life writing; an outlook develops some definitions and suggests a scheme of analysis for future research.
https://www.ebv-berlin.de/epages/15494902.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/15494902/Products/978-3-86893-102-0&Locale=en_GB #hagiography #narratology #narrativity
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Narrative Pattern and Genre in Hagiographic Life Writing: Comparative Perspectives from Asia to Europe examines so far mostly unstudied ‘non-occidental’ pre-modern hagiographic texts across disciplines with both philological and narratological approaches. Texts that recount the life of a saint have been labelled ‘hagiography’ and such works have been employed as sources for historical or literary research. However, a text-based definition of the term, not to mention a confirmation of its use on the basis of wider examinations across cultures is still wanting. This volume aims to be a step on this way: eleven contributors examine texts from Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism in the respective source languages. A comprehensive introduction outlines hagiographic life writing; an outlook develops some definitions and suggests a scheme of analysis for future research.
https://www.ebv-berlin.de/epages/15494902.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/15494902/Products/978-3-86893-102-0&Locale=en_GB #hagiography #narratology #narrativity
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Hi. My name's Alina. I like #words. I'm #fascinated by social constructions of purity and #innocence, and how those constructions relate to ideals of justice. I don't understand this planet at all but I will continue picking up #dirt and allowing it to #fall through my hands #again&again because everything begins in the unspeakable. Even #hagiography.