His individual works included polemica, hagiographical and liturgical works, sermons and poetry. These homilies were part of the hagiographical tradition of saints and martyrs. Porter described the work as "hagiographical and bowdlerized". He has also acted in biographical, historical and hagiographical films. As such, Ubba features in several dubious hagiographical accounts of Anglo-Saxon saints and ecclesiastical sites. There are numerable unearthly tales in the hagiographical life of Ge Xuan. The development of the hagiographical narrative of the dragon-fight parallels the development of iconography. A popularly ascribed hagiographical identity appears in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). Though they tend toward typical hagiographical stories, they also display Becket's well-known gruffness. Donald Attwater writes that the tale of Lupus and Attila is hagiographical rather than historical. He also drew on legendary and hagiographical material. The community has traditionally been treated as untouchables by the Tamil hagiographical literature. Almost all traditional and hagiographical sources maintain that Kalady was Shankara's birthplace. The name Hippolytus appears in various hagiographical and martyrological sources of the early churches. Several hagiographical accounts of her life exist.