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Author:   Christa Gray ,  James Corke-Webster
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   158
Weight:   0.651kg
ISBN:  

9789004421325

ISBN 10:   9004421327
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   19 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Abbreviations Introduction  James Corke-Webster and Christa Gray Part 1 The Persons of Hagiography 1 The First Hagiographies: The Life of Antony, the Life of Pamphilus, and the Nature of Saints  James Corke-Webster 2 The Hagiographer as Holy Fool? Fictionality in Saints’ Lives  Julie Van Pelt 3 Clerical Hagiography in Late Antiquity  Robert Wiśniewski Part 2 The Forms of Hagiography 4 Eremitic aemulatio: Genesis of Genre in Jerome’s Vita Pauli  Alan J. Ross 5 A Life Beyond Measure: Sulpicius, Martin and the Possibilities of Perpetual Discourse  Zachary Yuzwa 6 The Perils of Paulinus: Letters as Hagiography in the Correspondence of Paulinus of Nola and Sulpicius Severus  Michael S. Williams 7 Hagiographical Compilation as Literature: Receiving Saints, Recrafting Heroes, Redeploying Theologies  Todd E. French Part 3 The Strategies of Hagiography 8 How to Persuade a Saint: Supplication in Jerome’s Lives of Holy Men  Christa Gray 9 Holy Fools and Sacred Sidekicks: Comic Relief and Humorous Elements in a Hagiographical Text from Egypt  Konstantin M. Klein 10 Disclosing Secret Chaste Marriages in Jerome’s Life of Malchus and Stephen the African’s Life of Amator  Klazina Staat 11 The Hagiographer’s Craft: Narrators and Focalisation in Byzantine Hagiography  Anne Alwis 12 Postscript  Lucy Grig Index

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Christa Gray, D.Phil. (2012), University of Oxford, is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading. She is the author of Jerome, Vita Malchi: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (OUP, 2015), and co-editor of two volumes on Roman Republican oratory. James Corke-Webster, Ph.D. (2013), University of Manchester, is Senior Lecturer in Roman History at King's College, London. He is the author of Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History (CUP, 2019), jointly awarded the 2018 Conington Prize.

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