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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816638003321

Titolo

Syriac hagiography : texts and beyond / / edited by Sergey Minov, Flavia Ruani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-04-44529-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 pages)

Collana

Text and studies in Eastern Christianity ; ; Volume 20

Disciplina

235.2

Soggetti

Christian hagiography - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction /  Sergey Minov and Flavia Ruani -- Part I.  Texts as Literature: 1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiographies  /  Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent -- 2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of  Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Medieval Syriac  Milieu / Reyhan Durmaz -- 3. Objects as Narrative Devices in Syriac Hagiography /  Flavia Ruani -- Part II.  Saints Textualized: 4. Pope Sylvester: How to Create a Saint: The Syriac Contribution to the  Sylvestrian Hagiography /  Annunziata Di Rienzo -- 5. The Syriac Martyrdom of the Mimes and the Performance of Biblical  Recitation: Questions of Power and Contexts /  Cornelia Horn -- 6. The Syriac Life of Mār Yāret the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a  Monastic Holy Man in Early Medieval Mesopotamia /  Sergey Minov -- 7. Prose, Poetry, and Hagiography: The Martyrdoms of Jacob the Persian  and Tahmizgard in Syriac Story and Song / Adam Carter Bremer-McCollum -- 8. The Memory of the Persian Martyrs in St Nikodemos' Synaxaristes  (1819) / Sebastian P. Brock -- Part III.  Beyond the Texts: 9. Between Gift and Commodity: The Distribution of Tokens and Material  Substances at the Pilgrimage Sites of Stylites /  Dina Boero -- 10. St Stephen in Amida in a New mimro of Jacob of Serugh: Christianity vs  Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious Shrines / Muriel Debié -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Chapters gathered in Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explore a wide range of Syriac hagiographical works, while following two



complementary methodological approaches, i.e. literary and cultic, or formal and functional. Grouped into three main sections, these contributions reflect three interrelated ways in which we can read Syriac hagiography and further grasp its characteristics: "Texts as Literature" seeks to unfold the mechanisms of their literary composition; "Saints Textualized" offers a different perspective on the role played by hagiographical texts in the invention and/or maintenance of the cult of a particular saint or group of saints; "Beyond the Texts" presents cases in which the historical reality behind the nexus of hagiographical texts and veneration of saints can be observed in greater details"--