Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch'an 9004145087, 9789004145085

Early Medieval Hagiography 9781641890892

Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But what roles did saintly b

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Historiography and Hierotopy: Palestinian Hagiography in the Sixth Century A.D. 9781463239824

Judean hagiographies are unusual. Some surprise in their structure, resembling historical chronicles more than "tra

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Historiography and Hierotopy: Palestinian Hagiography in the Sixth Century A.D. 1463239815, 9781463239817

Judean hagiographies are unusual. Some surprise in their structure, resembling historical chronicles more than "tra

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Gaza in the early sixth century

The prosperous Palestinian seaport of Gaza, touched and influenced by a succession of civilizations, cultures, and relig

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Hagiography, Historiography, and Identity in Sixth-Century Gaul Rethinking Gregory of Tours 9463727736, 9789463727730

Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora

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Hagiography, Historiography, and Identity in Sixth-Century Gaul: Rethinking Gregory of Tours 9789048551996

Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora

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Hagiography, Historiography, and Identity in Sixth-Century Gaul: Rethinking Gregory of Tours (Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages) 9789463727730, 9789048551996, 9463727736

Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora

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The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan History and Its Context 9780231510028

The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lida

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Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton 9781442627352

Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first si

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The Platform sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: the text of the Tun-huang manuscript 9780231159562, 9780231159579, 0231159560, 0231159579

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