Sentences with phrase «medieval hagiographers»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.