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- A hagiography (/ ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi /; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios 'holy', and -γραφία, -graphia 'writing') is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.
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Hagiografi. Salah satu halaman dari sebuah naskah hagiografi terkait Guru Nanak Janam Sakhi (menunggang kuda putih) yang dikenal dalam Sikhisme. Naskah ini dibuat oleh pengikut Sikh pada tahun 1733 Masehi. Hagiografi berasal dari Bahasa Yunani dan artinya adalah karya biografi yang isinya menguduskan tokohnya.
A hagiography (/ ˌ h æ ɡ i ˈ ɒ ɡ r ə f i /; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios 'holy', and -γραφία, -graphia 'writing') is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.
Hagiography, the body of literature describing the lives and veneration of the Christian saints. The literature of hagiography embraces acts of the martyrs (i.e., accounts of their trials and deaths); biographies of saintly monks, bishops, princes, or virgins; and accounts of miracles connected.
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It outlines hagiography in the early Christian centuries and Late Antiquity, along with Middle Byzantine hagiography (eighth-twelfth centuries), and the revival of hagiography in the Palaiologan Era.
A hagiography is a biography of a saint or leader, or an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.
: a book about someone's life that makes it seem better than it really is or was : a biography that praises someone too much. [count] a hagiography about a famous politician. [noncount] The book gives a good idea of his virtues without resorting to hagiography.
Dec 19, 2019 · This chapter explores hagiography as a form of historiography, one that—as an exceptional or limit case—can help us understand how history and history-writing were conceptualized in the Middle Ages, and how they might most usefully be conceptualized in scholarship on the Middle Ages.
