The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements)

Gray, Christa (EDT)/ Corke-Webster, James (EDT)

Brill（2020/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 342 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004421325
• DDC分類 235.209

Full Description

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.

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

 James Corke-Webster and Christa Gray

Part 1 The Persons of Hagiography

1 The First Hagiographies: The Life of Antony, the Life of Pamphilus, and the Nature of Saints

 James Corke-Webster

2 The Hagiographer as Holy Fool? Fictionality in Saints' Lives

 Julie Van Pelt

3 Clerical Hagiography in Late Antiquity

 Robert Wiśniewski

Part 2 The Forms of Hagiography

4 Eremitic aemulatio: Genesis of Genre in Jerome's Vita Pauli

 Alan J. Ross

5 A Life Beyond Measure: Sulpicius, Martin and the Possibilities of Perpetual Discourse

 Zachary Yuzwa

6 The Perils of Paulinus: Letters as Hagiography in the Correspondence of Paulinus of Nola and Sulpicius Severus

 Michael S. Williams

7 Hagiographical Compilation as Literature: Receiving Saints, Recrafting Heroes, Redeploying Theologies

 Todd E. French

Part 3 The Strategies of Hagiography

8 How to Persuade a Saint: Supplication in Jerome's Lives of Holy Men

 Christa Gray

9 Holy Fools and Sacred Sidekicks: Comic Relief and Humorous Elements in a Hagiographical Text from Egypt

 Konstantin M. Klein

10 Disclosing Secret Chaste Marriages in Jerome's Life of Malchus and Stephen the African's Life of Amator

 Klazina Staat

11 The Hagiographer's Craft: Narrators and Focalisation in Byzantine Hagiography

 Anne Alwis

12 Postscript

 Lucy Grig

Index