The Hagiographical Experiment Developing Discourses Of Sainthood
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The Hagiographical Experiment Developing Discourses Of Sainthood
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-17
The Hagiographical Experiment Developing Discourses Of Sainthood written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Religion categories.
The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood throws fresh light on narratives about Christian holy men and women from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the relationship between story and reality, it asks what literary choices authors made in depicting their heroes and heroines: how they positioned the narrator, how they responded to existing texts, how they utilised or transcended genre conventions for their own purposes, and how they sought to relate to their audiences. The literary focus of the chapters assembled here showcases the diversity of hagiographical texts written in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac, as well as pointing out the ongoing conversations that connect them. By asking these questions of this diverse group of texts, it illuminates the literary development of hagiography in the late antique, Byzantine, and medieval periods.
Narrative Imagination And Concepts Of Fiction In Late Antique Hagiography
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-11-13
Narrative Imagination And Concepts Of Fiction In Late Antique Hagiography written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore narrative complexities related to fiction, such as invention, authentication, intertextuality, imagination and fictionality. Together, they represent an innovative exploration of how these concepts relate to hagiographical discourses of truth and the religious notion of belief, while paying due attention to the various factors and contexts that impact readers’ responses.
Metaphrasis A Byzantine Concept Of Rewriting And Its Hagiographical Products
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-09-25
Metaphrasis A Byzantine Concept Of Rewriting And Its Hagiographical Products written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-25 with History categories.
Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products represents a first and authoritative discussion of rewriting in Byzantium. It brings together a rich variety of articles that treat the topic of hagiographical rewriting from various angles.The contributors discuss and comment on different kinds of texts in Greek and other languages, including Apophthegmata Patrum, Passions, Saints’ Lives, Enkomia, Miracle Collections, Synaxaria, and Menologia which date from late antiquity to late Byzantium. The volume offers a series of case studies examining how the same legends evolved through time by the process of rewriting. It is shown that the main driving force behind such rewriting was adaptation to different audiences and contexts. This work argues that rewriting is central to Christian cultures in the Middle Ages. Contributors are Andria Andreou, Anne Alwis, Stavroula Constantinou, Koen de Temmerman, Kristoffel Demoen, Marina Detoraki, Bernard Flusin, Laura Franco, Martin Hinterberger, Christian Høgel, Daria D. Resh, Klazina Staat, Julie van Pelt, Robert Wiśniewski, and † John Wortley.
Syriac Hagiography
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-12-29
Syriac Hagiography written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-29 with Religion categories.
Chapters gathered in Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explore a wide range of Syriac hagiographical works, while following two complementary methodological approaches, i.e. literary and cultic, or formal and functional. Grouped into three main sections, these contributions reflect three interrelated ways in which we can read Syriac hagiography and further grasp its characteristics: “Texts as Literature” seeks to unfold the mechanisms of their literary composition; “Saints Textualized” offers a different perspective on the role played by hagiographical texts in the invention and/or maintenance of the cult of a particular saint or group of saints; “Beyond the Texts” presents cases in which the historical reality behind the nexus of hagiographical texts and veneration of saints can be observed in greater details.
Eusebius And Empire
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Author : James Corke-Webster
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-10
Eusebius And Empire written by James Corke-Webster and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Presents a radical new reading of how Christian history was rewritten in the fourth century to suit its circumstances under Rome.
Interpreting Jesus
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Author : Dale C. Allison
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2025-04-10
Interpreting Jesus written by Dale C. Allison and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-10 with Religion categories.
Timely new essays from a renowned scholar of historical Jesus studies Dale Allison, Jr. has long been recognized as a leading scholar in historical Jesus studies. In Interpreting Jesus, he continues to advance the discussion with the expertise and insight for which he is renowned. Within these highly original essays, Allison explores questions related to Jesus and women, Jesus and miracles, Jesus and Moses, Jesus and the last things, and method in Jesus scholarship. His sound analysis is particularly timely as scholars reconsider the historical figure of Jesus and the relationships among the canonical gospels. Allison’s keen interest in developing fresh perspectives make this book an important contribution to the field; readers can be grateful that, as he puts it, “enduring curiosity has kept me pondering the historical Jesus.”
War And Masculinity In Roman And Medieval Culture
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Author : Jaakkojuhani Peltonen
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-08-07
War And Masculinity In Roman And Medieval Culture written by Jaakkojuhani Peltonen and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-07 with History categories.
The chapters in this volume highlight the complexity and diversity of approaches to how ancient and medieval cultures understood martial masculinity and the significance warfare had on masculine values during the premodern era. They also point to how these ideals were manifested in numerous environments, covering topics from multiple points of view and using a variety of sources and methods. In the ancient and medieval periods, “manliness” was often understood as the ability to demonstrate bravery in war and eagerness to use violence in different situations. While certain marginal groups, such as philosophers and Christians, promoted more peaceful ideals of masculinity, war and masculinity were tightly connected to the cultures and societies of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Indeed, in Roman and later medieval culture, warfare played an essential role in constructing ideals of proper manliness and masculinity. This constructed masculinity manifested itself not only in written culture but also in everyday life, both visually and bodily. War and Masculinity in Roman and Medieval Culture is intended for those interested in ancient Roman and medieval culture, particularly researchers and students of gender and masculinity in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
First In The Desert St Paul The Hermit In Text And Tradition
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-12-09
First In The Desert St Paul The Hermit In Text And Tradition written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-09 with Religion categories.
This volume invites the reader to a journey into the mystery that is St. Paul the First Hermit. Presented in nine language traditions that span ten centuries of transmission, Paul’s vitae are a case study in cultural fusion and diversity. Assembled here for the first time, they provide the scaffolding for the volume that offers a window into the world of Eastern Christianity that consists of deeply interconnected, diverse communities. We learn about churches and monasteries and libraries; about books and relics; about art and iconography; and about the place of St. Paul in various liturgical traditions.
Illuminating The Vitae Patrum
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Author : Denva Gallant
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2024-04-30
Illuminating The Vitae Patrum written by Denva Gallant and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with Art categories.
During the fourteenth century in Western Europe, there was a growing interest in imitating the practices of a group of hermits known as the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Laypeople and religious alike learned about their rituals not only through readings from the Vitae patrum (Lives of the Desert Fathers) and sermons but also through the images that brought their stories to life. In this volume, Denva Gallant examines the Morgan Library’s richly illustrated manuscript of the Vitae patrum (MS M.626), whose extraordinary artworks witness the rise of the eremitic ideal and its impact on the visual culture of late medieval Italy. Drawing upon scholarship on the history of psychology, eastern monasticism, gender, and hagiography, Gallant deepens our understanding of the centrality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers to late medieval piety. She provides important insights into the role of images in making the practices of the desert saints both compelling and accessible to fourteenth-century city dwellers, who were just beginning to cultivate the habit of private devotion on a wide scale. By focusing on the most extensively illuminated manuscript of the Vitae patrum to emerge during the trecento, this book sheds new light on the ways in which images communicated and reinforced modes of piety. It will be of interest to art historians, religious historians, and students focusing on this period in Italian history.
Converting Verse
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Author : David Ungvary
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Converting Verse written by David Ungvary and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
Converting Verse provides a fresh account of the ways Christian poets in the late Roman world-especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul-reinvented Latin poetry's purpose and power during the turbulent fifth century, a period that witnessed barbarian incursions, the rise of monasticism, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire itself.