Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 June 2025
The Introduction discusses the rise of Christianity in fifth-century Cyprus and the status of autocephaly that its Church came to enjoy after the Third Ecumenical Council in Ephesos (431). These developments were paralleled by the writing of different kinds of hagiographical texts, which promoted the figures of local saints by entangling them into current political and ecclesiastical issues. In terms of the forms of expression or the arrangement and choice of subject matter, hagiographical texts coincided with pre-Christian literature at many points. Yet, by virtue of their narrative form and subject matter, they carved out a path of their own.
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