Hagiography:
- Refers to writing which records and glorifies the lives of saints & martyrs.
- Can be thought of as a form of Christian propaganda.
- It was an important literary genre in the early Christian church.
- Was practiced widely in the Middle Ages.
- Sometimes the term is applied to modern biographies, where the subject has been treated too reverentially, i.e. like they are saints.
- Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan, from 1923, is one of few true modern hagiographic works.
Image: Theodore Stratelates hagiography by Johann Alexander Döderlein (Public Domain)
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