The Early Martyr Narratives : : Neither Authentic Accounts nor Forgeries / / Éric Rebillard.
From Eusebius of Caesarea, who first compiled a collection of martyr narratives around 300, to Thierry Ruinart, whose Acta primorum martyrum sincera et selecta was published in 1689, the selection and study of early hagiographic narratives has been founded on an assumption that there existed documen...
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Rebillard, Éric, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Early Martyr Narratives : Neither Authentic Accounts nor Forgeries / Éric Rebillard. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020] ©2021 1 online resource (192 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Earliest Narratives and Their Reception -- Chapter 2. Martyr Narratives and Court Recordings -- Chapter 3. From Forgeries to Living Texts -- Chapter 4. History, Fiction, Document, Testimony -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Introduction -- Appendix A. Text and Translation of Aug. ep. 29* -- Appendix B. Materials for a Synoptic Edition of the Acts of the Scilitan Martyrs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star From Eusebius of Caesarea, who first compiled a collection of martyr narratives around 300, to Thierry Ruinart, whose Acta primorum martyrum sincera et selecta was published in 1689, the selection and study of early hagiographic narratives has been founded on an assumption that there existed documents written at the time of martyrdom, or very close to it. As a result, a search for authenticity has been and continues to be central, even in the context of today's secular scholarship. But, as Éric Rebillard contends, the alternative approach, to set aside entirely the question of the historical reliability of martyr narratives, is not satisfactory either. Instead, he argues that martyr narratives should be consider as fluid "living texts," written anonymously and received by audiences not as precise historical reports but as versions of the story. In other words, the form these texts took, between fact and fiction, made it possible for audiences to readily accept the historicity of the martyr while at the same time not expect to hear or read a truthful account.In The Early Martyr Narratives, Rebillard considers only accounts of Christian martyrs supposed to have been executed before 260, and only those whose existence is attested in sources that can be dated to before 300. The resulting small corpus contains no texts in the form of legal protocols, traditionally viewed as the earliest, most official and authentic records, nor does it include any that can be dated to a period during which persecution of Christians is known to have taken place. Rather than deduce from this that they are forgeries written for the sake of polemic or apologetic, Rebillard demonstrates how the literariness of the narratives creates a fictional complicity that challenges and complicates any claims of these narratives to be truthful. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Christian literature, Early Criticism, Textual. Christian martyrs Biography Early works to 1800 History and criticism. Martyrologies History and criticism. Religion/Religious Studies. RELIGION / Christian Church / History. bisacsh Religion. Religious Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2020 English 9783110704778 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2020 9783110704570 ZDB-23-DGF Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739213 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297607 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812297607 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812297607/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Earliest Narratives and Their Reception -- Chapter 2. Martyr Narratives and Court Recordings -- Chapter 3. From Forgeries to Living Texts -- Chapter 4. History, Fiction, Document, Testimony -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix A. Text and Translation of Aug. ep. 29* -- Appendix B. Materials for a Synoptic Edition of the Acts of the Scilitan Martyrs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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