Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography / / Julie Van Pelt, Koen De Temmerman, Klazina Staat.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava ; volume 478
• VerfasserIn: Van Pelt, Julie,; Temmerman, Koen De,; Staat, Klazina,
• TeilnehmendeR: Temmerman, Koen De,; Staat, Klazina,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; volume 478.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages).

"This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore narrative complexities related to fiction, such as invention, authentication, intertextuality, imagination and fictionality. Together, they represent an innovative exploration of how these concepts relate to hagiographical discourses of truth and the religious notion of belief, while paying due attention to the various factors and contexts that impact readers' responses"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Narratives of imagination and fiction in late Antique hagiography : scholarship and ways forward / Koen De Temmerman and Julie Van Pelt -- At the margins of the world : the desert as a fictionalized space in Pseudo-Neilos' Narrations and the History of the great deeds of Bishop Paul of Qentos and Priest John of Edessa / André Binggeli -- Truth, authentication and history-writing in the History of the Armenians by Agathangelos / Valentina Calzolari -- Modelling prophets : Alexander the Great as a Proto-Sufi Saint-King in Thaʻlabi's Lives of the prophets / Ghazzal Dabiri.