The essays gathered in this volume evolved from papers that were delivered at the workshop ‘Saints in Christian Ethiopia: literary sources and veneration’ organized in Hamburg in 2012. The papers explore the hagiographical traditions of a number of saints, both indigenous and foreign, from historical, textual, and socioanthropological angles. Contributions: Introduction (Denis Nosnitsin); Ascetic suicides in the Vita of St. Paul of Tamma: an Egyptian drama and its Ethiopian continuation (Dmitry Bumazhnov); Between hagiography and history: the Zage dynasty and king Yamrahann Krastos (Gianfranco Fiaccadori); The Aksumite kingdom in Ethiopic hagiographical sources (Iosif Fridman); ‘Abba Ltsun and a ‘Treatise on Sabbath observance’ (Suzanne Hummel); The ‘Gdl Kiros’ in Ethiopian religious practices: a study of eighteen manuscripts from Eastern Tagray (Magdalena Krzyzanowska); Vita and miracles of the Sadeqan of ‘Addiqharsi Praqlitos: a preliminary study (Denis Nosnitsin); Passio of St Cyricus (Gdl Qirqos) in North Ethiopia: elements of devotion and of manuscripts tradition (Vitagrazia Pisani); Antony the first monk in Ethiopian tradition (Witold Witakowski); The Ethiopian short life of John of Scetis (seventh century) (Ugo Zanetti). [ASC Leiden abstract]
