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

Table of Contents:

Prologue.
The making of saints in late antique North Africa : between story telling and architectural staging / Sabine Panzram
Early African martyr narratives as living texts / Éric Rebillard
Part 1. The story made the martyr?
A witness for the defence : St Salsa at Tipasa / Alice van den Bosch
The making of female martyrs : the cases of the Mauritanian saints Salsa of Tipasa and Marciana of Caesarea / Nathalie Klinck
The "military Saints"of late antique North Africa and the Christian discourse on military service / Daniel Syrbe
The Passion of the Martyrs of Abitinae and the role of lay notables in the Donatist church / Bruno Pottier
Some relics, a bishop, a curse, and four sermons : constructing the cult of a saint in late antique Hippo / Robert Wiśniewski
Part 2. Saints and the city : the architectural stagin.
Between religion and protection : military saints and their cults in late antique North Africa / Anna Leone, Tommaso Giuliodoro
New views on the episcopate of African cities during late antiquity : the cases of Bulla Regia and Mustis / Moheddine Chaouali
Sacralizing the martyr's house in late antique North Africa : architectural, textual and visual features in the making of martyr shrines and the complexity of local martyrscapes at Tipasa / Stefan Ardeleanu
Bonding experiences : saints joining past and present in Byzantine North Africa / Ralf Bockmann
Epilogue: Eternal persecutions : cultural trauma and memory of the martyrs in Vandal North Africa / Éric Fournier.

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