Collection of Essays
The hagiographical experiment: developing discourses of sainthood Gray, Christa • Corke-Webster, James [Publ.]. |
In Book Series: | Vigiliae christianae. Supplement / 158 |
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Language: | English |
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Content
Introduction |
The First Hagiographies: The Life of Antony, the Life of Pamphilus, and the Nature of Saints |
The Hagiographer as Holy Fool? Fictionality in Saints' Lives |
Clerical Hagiography in Late Antiquity |
Eremitic aemulatio: Genesis of Genre in Jerome's Vita Pauli |
A Life Beyond Measure: Sulpicius, Martin, and the Possibilities of Perpetual Discourse |
The Perils of Paulinus: Letters as Hagiography in the Correspondence of Paulinus of Nola and Sulpicius Severus |
Hagiographical Compilation as Literature: Receiving Saints, Recrafting Heroes, Redeploying Theologies |
How to Persuade a Saint: Supplication in Jerome's Lives of Holy Men |
Holy Fools and Sacred Sidekicks: Comic Relief and Humorous Elements in a Hagiographical Text from Egypt |
Disclosing Secret Chaste Marriages in Jerome's Life of Malchus and Stephen the African's Life of Amator |
The Hagiographer's Craft: Narrators and Focalisation in Byzantine Hagiography |
Postscript |