0 very admiring of someone and representing the person as perfect or much better than they really are: --
Weinraub takes a hagiographic approach, portraying him as a historical hero first and a human being second.
The biography has been criticized for being too hagiographic.
Another important category found in the library is the hagiographic texts.
This terse formulaic composition draws heavily on the hagiographic conventions and yields very few historical details.
The work is 46 chapters long, elaborately composed using complex sentences and displays a familiarity with many earlier hagiographic writings.
One fragment with a hagiographic flavour was once thought to belong to the saga but more recent research indicates that it is from another text.
However, ecclesiastically the language retained its important position, and many hagiographic texts were also composed during this period.
Some hagiographic texts can illuminate the situation.
Although the book is very readable and offers good illustrations, it tends to lapse into hagiographic descriptions of religious leadership.
Biographies, scholarly essays and even hagiographic works were devoted to a president who seemed to relish his reputation for a disregard of democratic niceties.
