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The advent of Christianity ushered in a new biographical hero, the saint, as classical secular biography yielded to hagiography. This form of life-writing arose in connection with the persecution of Christians; the first stories were those of martyrs. The earliest examples were simple, unembellished dialogues between the accused and their judges. In time, however, as Christianity became the primary religion in Europe, many "Lives" were produced; a large number of them were based on legends which had grown up around martyr-saints. As the persecution of Christians abated, new saintly heroes appeared: ascetics, church-builders, monks, orators, and so on. But many of their "Lives" had as little basis in fact as did the passions of their predecessors. Hagiography in time had become a highly conventionalized and stylized kind of biography. It abounded in repetitious themes, commonplaces, and supernatural elements. All of these features combined to produce a work which some critics have viewed as essentially a type of "anti-biography," inasmuch as all the basic tenets of historical biography are violated. As a result, the hero of the "Life" lost his individuality and became a generalized

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Author

Marvin Kantor

Publisher

University of Michigan, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780930042448

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Literary Fiction

Rating

5 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14