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The Medieval Church · c. 975–990
The Menologion
Symeon Metaphrastes · 10th century
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What it is
The lives of the saints for every day of the year, rewritten in a uniform and polished Greek from older texts of uneven quality.
Why it lasted
It standardised Byzantine hagiography so successfully that the older versions it replaced were mostly discarded and lost.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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