Demons in Late Antiquity : : Their Perception and Transformation in Different Literary Genres /

Demons in Late Antiquity : : Their Perception and Transformation in Different Literary Genres / / ed. by Eva Elm, Nicole Hartmann.

Since the perception of demons in antiquity depended on particular cultural and religious milieus, the authors in this volume take into view various texts – ranging from amulets, spells, apocalypses, martyrdom literature to hagiography – and focus specifically on literary aspects of the transformati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Bremmer, Jan N.,
Elm, Eva,
Grypeou, Emmanouela,
Hartmann, Nicole,
Lunn-Rockliffe, Sophie,
Markschies, Christoph,
Vos, Nienke,
Weissenrieder, Annette,
Wiśniewski, Robert,
HerausgeberIn:
Elm, Eva,
Hartmann, Nicole,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Transformationen der Antike , 54
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Demons and Disease
  • 2. Disease and Healing in a Changing World. “Medical” Vocabulary and Exorcism in the Vetus Latina Luke
  • 3. On Demons in Early Martyrology
  • 4. Demons of the Underworld in the Christian Literature of Late Antiquity
  • 5. Demons in Early Latin Hagiography
  • 6. Hilarion and the Bactrian Camel. Demons and Genre in Jerome’s Life of Hilarion
  • 7. The Ambiguity of the Devil. A Discourse-Linguistic Reading of Sulpicius Severus’ Vita Martini 21 and 24
  • 8. Demonic Speech in Hagiography and Hymnography
  • Demons: An Epilogue
  • About the Authors

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