Sentences with word «hagiographer»

Early medieval hagiographers often projected their cultural anxieties onto swamps — fearsome landscapes full of fearsome people.

With all due respect to early - American hagiographer Parson Weems, George Washington knew how to tell a lie.

But Francis's hagiographers talk about him as an ecstatic, as a visionary.

Contemporary authors create their texts from literary quotations, in the same way that the medieval hagiographer Epiphanius the Wise weaves biblical quotations into lives of saints.

Thus the missionaries of early medieval Europe sought places where God was silent, turning hostile territory into fertile ground ---- at least according to their triumphalist hagiographers.

Such assessments may have been on the mind of Willibald (d. 787), an early medieval hagiographer who wrote the Life of Boniface, the Anglo - Saxon saint and missionary who Christianized broad areas of northern Europe before his martyrdom in 754.

Apparently the Trump «recovery» or Trump «bull market» isn't as wonderful as his hagiographers would have us believe...

The hagiographers, for the first time in Christian history, turn to living persons, or those who have recently died, as models of the virtuous life.

Some hagiographers allow the reader, however infrequently and fleetingly, to glimpse their hero's shortcomings.

The hagiographers do not simply set down a minimalist standard for all to imitate.

As has often been observed, the early Christian monastic movement offered women a way to step free of inherited roles and expectations, and the hagiographers seized the opportunity to tell their stories, many of them as spellbinding as those of their male counterparts.

So Conun returned to the monastery, baptized the maiden, anointed her with oil, and, his hagiographer adds, his body did not move.

' «So remarkable were the feats of women that the hagiographers criticized the popular view that women's capacity for virtue was inferior to that of men.

By turning John F. Kennedy» the embodiment of pragmatic, rationalist, results - oriented anticommunist liberalism» into a mythical figure whose idealism could never be recaptured, the hagiographers helped undermine the confidence in progress that had once characterized the liberalism of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Kennedy himself.

The life story of the northern Russian wilderness - dweller Nikodim Kozheozersky tells of how this saint, as is customary for hermits, ate only wild plants, an assertion that is not hindered even when the hagiographer announces in the next sentence that he also cultivated turnips for his diet.

In a similar way, hagiographers would include in their texts fragments from other saints» lives.

But Lev, no hagiographer, makes it clear that she was not exactly a saint: In addition to possessing a seemingly flexible sexual ethic, she pursued her father's (and her husband's) enemies with a devilish fury, executing them in imaginative ways.