Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography / / Julie Van Pelt, Koen De Temmerman, Klazina Staat.
"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...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava ; volume 478 |
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| 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). |
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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.