Canon and calendar: the role of a ninth-century hymnographer in shaping the celebration of the saints*

Nancy P. Ševčenko

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Byzantine Studies and History Medieval Literature and History Historical and Religious Studies of Rome

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The life of the ninth-century poet Joseph the Hymnographer contains two episodes of particular interest. The first is an event that took place while the saint was in captivity on Crete, probably in the year 842, just before the end of Iconoclasm. As related in the Vita of Joseph, written soon after the saint's death by his successor Theophanes, the story unfolds like this:

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