S. Hackel, ed., The Byzantine Saint (1981); x, 245pp.

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• Introduction - S. Hackel
• The Byzantine Saint - A. Bryer
• Pachomios and the Idea of Sanctity - H. Chadwick
• Hellenistic and Oriental Origins - H. J. W. Drijvers
• The Politicisation of the Byzantine Saint - S. A. Harvey
• The Political Saint of the Eleventh Century - R. Morris
• The Byzantine Holy Man in the Twelfth Century - P. Magdalino
• Saints and Sainthood in the Early Palaiologan Period - R. Macrides
• Sainteté et Pouvoir - E. Patlagean
• The Holy Fool - L. Rydén
• The 'Low Level' Saint's Life in the Early Byzantine World - R. Browning
• Le saint comme symbole - M. can Esbroeck
• St Polychronius and his Companions - but which Polychronius? - A. Crabbe
• The Acta Sanctorum and Bollandist Methodology - F. van Ommeslaeghe
• Self-Canonisation: the 'Partial Account' of Nikephoros Blemmydes - J. Munitiz
• The Traffic in Relics: some Late Roman Evidence - E. D. Hunt
• The Role of the Byzantine Saint in the Development of the Icon Cult - N. Gendle
• The mass-produced Byzantine Saint - D. Buckton
• The Forty in Art - Z. A. Gavrilovic
• The Iconography of the Byzantine Saint in the Illuminations of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries - V. D. Likhacheva
• The Panegyris of the Byzantine Saint: a study in the nature of a medieval institution, its origins and fate - S. Vryonis Jr