The making of saints in Late Antique North Africa /

The making of saints in Late Antique North Africa /

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Imprint:	Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2024] ©2024
Description:	347 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Beiträge zur Hagiographie ; Band 28 Beiträge zur Hagiographie ; Bd. 28.
Subject:	Christian hagiography -- Congresses. Christian saints -- Africa, North -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses. Christian saints -- Cult -- Africa, North -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses. Christian martyrs -- Africa, North -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses. Christian martyrs -- Cult -- Africa, North -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses. Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13525978

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Other authors / contributors:	Panzram, Sabine, editor. Klinck, Nathalie, editor.
ISBN:	9783515137270 3515137270
Notes:	"...conference took place in the Gästehaus der Universität Hamburg - Stiftung Weltweite Wissenschaft from the 22nd to the 23rd of Spetember 2021...." -- See "Preface and acknowledgements", page 6. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:	9783515137287 e-book version
Standard no.:	9783515137270

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Summary:	The "Making of Saints" is a phenomenon of central significance to Christianity since a vision-inspired Ambrosius discovered the remains of the martyrs Gervasius and Protasius in 386 AD in Milan. In North Africa it seems to have taken on an extremely interesting form that makes Brent D. Shaw speaking of the blood of the martyrs as "the vital force, the kinetic energy powering Christian life in Africa". This volume contributes to the productively expanding research field of North African Christianity by providing narrative analyses on the one hand and presenting case studies from an archaeological perspective on the other, which allow a comparative perspective of the phenomenon in order to systematically combine them: narrative alone did not "make" a martyr, architectural staging too was needed - the story made the martyr and the staging made the saint. The multidisciplinary approach brings together the most recent results concerning excavations and epigraphy, but also an innovative conceptual understanding of text, space, and - last but not least - religion, in order to examine the social function that the veneration of martyrs had in a longue duree perspective.
Item Description:	"...conference took place in the Gästehaus der Universität Hamburg - Stiftung Weltweite Wissenschaft from the 22nd to the 23rd of Spetember 2021...." -- See "Preface and acknowledgements", page 6.
Physical Description:	347 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9783515137270 3515137270