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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004421335 |
Download The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2023-11-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004685758 |
Download Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004438459 |
Download Metaphrasis:A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume represents the first discussion of rewriting in Byzantium. It brings together a rich variety of articles treating hagiographical rewriting from various angles. The contributors discuss and comment on different kinds of texts from late antiquity to late Byzantium.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2020-12-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004445293 |
Download Syriac Hagiography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The collective volume Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explores several late-antique and medieval Syriac hagiographical works from the complementary perspectives of literature and cult.
Author | : Christa Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Christian hagiography |
ISBN | : 9789004421325 |
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The Hagiographical Experiment offers a range of literary approaches to Christian narratives about saints and martyrs to help advance our understanding of the discursive means by which hagiography developed.
Author | : Massimo A. Rondolino |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2017-01-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317156943 |
Download Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Hagiographical Strategies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the potential of conducting studies in comparative hagiology, through parallel literary and historical analyses of spiritual life writings pertaining to distinct religious contexts. In particular, it focuses on a comparative analysis of the early sources on the medieval Christian Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) and the Tibetan Buddhist Milarepa (c. 1052-1135), up to and including the so-called ‘standard versions’ of their life stories written by Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221-1274) and Tsangnyön Heruka (1452-1507) respectively. The book thus demonstrates how in the social and religious contexts of both 1200s Italy and 1400s Tibet, narratives of the lives, deeds and teachings of two individuals recognized as spiritual champions were seen as the most effective means to promote spiritual, doctrinal and political agendas. Therefore, as well being highly relevant to those studying hagiographical sources, this book will be of interest to scholars working across the fields of religion and the comparative study of religious phenomena, as well as history and literature in the pre-modern period.
Author | : James Corke-Webster |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108682049 |
Download Eusebius and Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, written in the early fourth century, continues to serve as our primary gateway to a crucial three hundred year period: the rise of early Christianity under the Roman Empire. In this volume, James Corke-Webster undertakes the first systematic study considering the History in the light of its fourth-century circumstances as well as its author's personal history, intellectual commitments, and literary abilities. He argues that the Ecclesiastical History is not simply an attempt to record the past history of Christianity, but a sophisticated mission statement that uses events and individuals from that past to mould a new vision of Christianity tailored to Eusebius' fourth-century context. He presents elite Graeco-Roman Christians with a picture of their faith that smooths off its rough edges and misrepresents its size, extent, nature, and relationship to Rome. Ultimately, Eusebius suggests that Christianity was - and always had been - the Empire's natural heir.
Author | : Christopher Semk |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2017-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611488044 |
Download Playing the Martyr Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater and religion in early modern France. Challenging the standard narrative of modernity as a process of increased secularization Christopher Semk demonstrates the centrality of religious thought and practices to the development of neoclassical poetics. Engaging with a broad corpus of religious plays, poetic treatises, devotional literature, and contemporary theory, Semk shows that religion was a vital interlocutor in early modern discussions concerning the definition of verisimilitude, the nature and purpose of spectacle, the mechanics of acting, and the position of the spectator. Well researched and persuasively argued, Playing the Martyr makes the case for a more complicated approach to the relationship between religion and literature, namely, one that does not treat religion as a theme deployed within literary works, but as an active player in literary invention. Indeed, it makes the case for a serious reconsideration of the role that religion plays in the development of modern, secular literary forms.
Author | : Denva Gallant |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2024-01-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 027109804X |
Download Illuminating the Vitae patrum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Ian Wood |
Publisher | : punctum books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1685710263 |
Download The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Examines the chronology of the Church’s acquisition of wealth, and particularly of landed property, as well as the distribution of its income, in the period between the conversion of Constantine and the eighth century"-- Provided by publisher.