hagiography

(noun)

The study of saints.

Related Terms

  • Icon
  • Iconoclastic
  • pagan
  • Eastern Christianity

Examples of hagiography in the following topics:

  • Painting in the Early Byzantine Empire

    • This recognition of a religious apparition from likeness to an image was also a characteristic of pagan pious accounts of appearances of gods to humans and was a common theme in hagiography.
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