Hagiographical Experiment : Developing Discourses of Sainthood
Developing Discourses of Sainthood
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Word Count
89,000 words, Guess
Page Count
356 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28091670M
- ISBN-139789004421325
- OCLC Control Number1200049253
- OCLC Control Number1122916546
- Library of Congress Control Number2019054207
Classifications
- LCCBX4662.H3175 2020
- LCCBX4662 .H3175 2020
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"--
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