Krausmüller, Dirk02.14. Department of History / Tarih Bölümü02. Faculty of Letters / Edebiyat Fakültesi01. Mardin Artuklu University / Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi14.07.20192019-07-1614.07.20192019-07-1620130307-01311749-625Xhttps://doi.org/10.1179/0307013113Z.00000000028https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12514/1414Through comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy and with Late Antique allegorical interpretations of the Bible this article makes the case that Byzantine hagiographers encoded an allegorical dimension into their texts and that they did so in order to make value judgements that complement explicit evaluations of the behaviour of saints.en10.1179/0307013113Z.00000000028info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessArticle2-s2.0-84882999066