Constructing saints in Greek and Latin hagiography : heroes and heroines in Late Antique and medieval narrative /

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Imprint:	Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols [2023] ©2023
Description:	182 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Language:	English French
Series:	Fabulae : narrative in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; volume 2 Fabulae (Brepols (Firm)) ; v. 2.
Subject:	Christian hagiography -- Congresses. Heroes -- Biography -- Congresses. Saints -- Congresses. Women heroes -- Biography -- Congresses. Heroes in literature -- Congresses. Biography as a literary form -- Congresses. Hagiography. Saints. Middle Ages. History, Ancient. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Conference papers and proceedings. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13415378

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Other authors / contributors:	Temmerman, Koen de, editor. Pelt, Julie Van, 1992- editor. Staat, Klazina, editor.
ISBN:	9782503602820 2503602827
Notes:	"This book originates from a conference entitled 'Holy Hero(in)es. Literary Contructions of Heroism in Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagiography', which was organized by the editors at Ghent University in 2016"--Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references and index. Chiefly English; one contribution in French.
Summary:	"This book explores representations of saints in a variety of Latin and Greek late antique hagiographical narratives, such as saints? Lives, martyr acts, miracle collections, and edifying tales. The book examines techniques through which the saints featured in such texts are depicted as heroes and heroines, i.e., as extraordinary characters exhibiting both exemplary behaviour and a set of specific qualities that distinguish them from others. The book inscribes itself in a growing body of relatively recent scholarship that approaches hagiographical accounts not just as historical sources but also as narrative constructions. As such, it contributes to the development of a scholarly rationale which increasingly values imaginative and fictional aspects of hagiography in their own right, with the aim of answering broader questions about narrative creativity and ideology. For instance, individual chapters examine how hagiographical accounts mobilize and capitalize on earlier literary and rhetorical traditions or narrative models. These questions are specifically addressed to explore the narrative construction of characters. The chapters thereby encourage us to acknowledge that many hagiographers were more skilful than is often accepted"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Note on Editorial Choices and Abbreviations
Saints, Narratives, and Hero(in)es: Scholarship, Definitions, and Concepts
Saints and Secondary Heroes in Byzantine Hagiography
Rhétorique de l'éloge et construction des modèles de sainteté dans l'hagiographie africaine (II e-VI e siècles)
Listen to Her: Rewriting Virgin Martyrs as Orators in the Byzantine Passions of St Tatiana and St Ia
Fail Again. Fail Better: Notker Balbulus cum suis on the Impossibility of Writing the Life of St Gallus
Character Types and Characterization in Byzantine Edifying Stories
Money and Sainthood: Doctor Saints as Christian Heroes
An Unstable Heroine: The Life and Lives of Constantina
Index

Constructing saints in Greek and Latin hagiography : heroes and heroines in Late Antique and medieval narrative /

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