The Hagiography of Byzantine Cyprus

STEPHANOS EFTHYMIADIS is a professor of Byzantine Studies in the Hellenic Culture Programme at the Open University of Cyprus. He has published numerous studies on Byzantine hagiography, historiography, and prosopography, and critical editions of several hagiographical texts. He is the editor of the two-volume The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography (2011 and 2014) and is currently preparing a monograph on the social history of Hagia Sophia of Constantinople.

• Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Sanctity and hagiographic literature on Cyprus; 2. In the footsteps of the Apostles: the hagiography of the Apostle Barnabas and the first bishops of Cyprus; 3. The hagiography of the fourth-century bishops of Cyprus; 4. St Ioannes the Almsgiver (d. 620): the Cypriot patriarch of Alexandria and his hagiographical tradition (BHG 886–888e); 5. A special case: St Artemon and his Life or Passio (BHG 175); 6. Two more seventh-century Cypriot hagiographers; 7. The hagiography of Cyprus after late antiquity; 8. An end and a beginning: Cypriot hagiography in the hundred years of Latin rule; Epilogue; Map and toponymy of Byzantine Cyprus; Appendix; References; Index of manuscripts cited; Index.