They are described by the great hagiographer, Du Guangting, at the end of the Tang dynasty. |
He has chosen nine other contributors, mainly from the U.K., among them the excellent hagiographer. |
This book is a real effort to distinguish between the problems and perspectives of the hagiographer on the one hand and the historian on the other. |
The other day I asked Robert Caro, Johnson's Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer and hardly a hagiographer of the man, whether he thought Johnson should be mentioned in Denver. |
Bede's work as a hagiographer, and his detailed attention to dating, were both useful preparations for the task of writing the Historia Ecclesiastica. |
With this end of glorification in view the hagiographer is prepared to swallow everything and record anything. |