RRE4210 – Hagiographical text, Greek and Coptic
Course content
This course is an opportunity for students to read and comment on hagiographical literature written on the lives of the saints and martyrs in the late antique period. The selected texts will be translations of materials in Greek and Coptic. This genre of literature was highly popular at a time when there was a significant growth in the cult of the saints and martyrs and pilgrimages to their associated shrines. In reading this hagiographical material we are given a glim