The lives of Saint Constantina /

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Imprint:	Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	x, 229 pages : illustrations (some color), map, genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Language:	English Latin
Series:	Oxford early Christian texts Oxford early Christian texts.
Subject:	Constantina, -- Saint. Hagiography. Christian women saints -- Rome. Christian women saints. Hagiography. Rome (Empire)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12629539

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Other authors / contributors:	Conti, Marco (Medievalist), editor. Burrus, Virginia, editor. Trout, Dennis E., 1953- editor.
ISBN:	9780198854425 0198854420
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and indexes. Texts in Latin with English translation on facing pages; critical matter and commentary in English.
Summary:	"Constantina, daughter of the fourth-century emperor Constantine who so famously converted to Christianity, deserves a place of her own in the history of Christianity. As both poet and church-builder, she was an early patron of the Roman cult of the virgin martyr Agnes and was buried ad sanctam in a sumptuously mosaicked mausoleum that still stands. What has been very nearly forgotten is that the twice-married Constantina also came to be viewed as a virgin saint in her own right, said to have been converted and healed of leprosy by Saint Agnes. This volume publishes for the first time critical editions and English translations of three Latin hagiographies dedicated to the empress, offering an introduction and commentaries to contextualize these virtually unknown works. The earliest and longest of them is the anonymous Life of Saint Constantina likely dating to the mid or late sixth century, reflecting a female monastic setting and featuring both a story of Pope Silvester's instruction of Constantina and a striking dialogue between Constantina and twelve virgins who offer speeches in praise of virginity as the summum bonum. A second, slightly later work, On the Feast of Saint Constantia the Virgin (the misnaming of the saint reflecting common confusion), is a more streamlined account apparently tailored for liturgical use in early seventh-century Rome; this text is reworked and expanded by the twelfth-century Roman scholar Nicolaus Maniacoria in his Life of the Blessed Constantia the Virgin, including a question-and-answer dialogue between Constantina and her two virginal charges Attica and Artemia. These works will be of great interest to students of late ancient and medieval saints' cults, hagiography, monasticism, and women's history."--Dust jacket.

Table of Contents:

Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Note on Nomenclature and Titles
Time Line
Stemma of Constantina's Family
Map of Constantina's Rome
Plan of the Via Nomentana Complex
Introduction: The Making of a Saint
Constantina in Modernity: The Bollandists' Archive
Constantina in Her (Own) Time
Constantina in the Monastery: The Life of Saint Constantina the Virgin
Constantina on the Via Nomentana: On the Feast of Saint Constantia the Virgin (The Epitome)
Constantina in the Later Middle Ages: Nicolaus Maniacoria's Life of the Blessed Constantia the Virgin
Conclusions
The Life of Saint Constantina the Virgin
Text and Translation
Commentary
On the Feast of Saint Constantia the Virgin (The Epitome)
Text and Translation
Commentary
Nicolaus Maniacoria's Life of the Blessed Constantia the Virgin
Text and Translation
Commentary
Appendices 1.
A. Constantina's Dedicatory Poem: Basilica of Agnes (Via Nomentana)
B. Passion of Agnes: Epilogue
C. Life of Silvester: Excerpts from the Liber Pontificalis
D. Passion of Gallicanus, John, and Paul: Excerpts
Works Cited
Index of Biblical Quotations and References
Index of Proper Names in the Translations
General Index

The lives of Saint Constantina /

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