Sentences with phrase «hagiographer epiphanius»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

' «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.

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

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

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.

They believe their hagiographers and make big, hollow «statement» films to meet expectations.

Scanners In the realm of Internet criticism, there's been a lot of commentary on the gulf dividing fanboys and academics, but when it comes to unfortunately polarizing tendencies, there's still another Great Schism: the altar boys and the assholes: humorlessly earnest, mind - numbingly reverent hagiographers and caustically negative, bitchy would - be satirists.