Syriac Hagiography : Texts and Beyond.
Minov, Sergey.
Syriac Hagiography : Texts and Beyond. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (382 pages) - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity Series ; v.20 . - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Sigla and Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction (Minov and Ruani) -- Part 1. Texts as Literature -- Chapter 1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiography (Mellon Saint-Laurent) -- Chapter 2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Medieval Syriac Milieu (Durmaz) -- Chapter 3. Objects as Narrative Devices in Syriac Hagiography (Ruani) -- Part 2. Saints Textualized -- Chapter 4. Pope Sylvester: How to Create a Saint-The Syriac Contribution to the Sylvestrian Hagiography (Di Rienzo) -- Chapter 5. The Syriac Martyrdom of the Mimes and the Performance of Biblical Recitation: Questions of Power and Contexts (Horn) -- Chapter 6. The Syriac Life of Mār Yāret the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a Monastic Holy Man in Early Medieval Mesopotamia (Minov) -- Chapter 7. Prose, Poetry, and Hagiography: The Martyrdoms of Jacob the Persian and Tahmizgard in Syriac Story and Song (Bremer-McCollum) -- Chapter 8. The Memory of the Persian Martyrs in St Nikodemos' Synaxaristes (1819) (Brock) -- Part 3. Beyond the Texts -- Chapter 9. Between Gift and Commodity: The Distribution of Tokens and Material Substances at the Pilgrimage Sites of Stylites (Boero) -- Chapter 10. St Stephen in Amida in a New mimro of Jacob of Serugh: Christianity vs Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious Shrines (Debié) -- Scriptural Index -- Index of Ancient Sources.
The collective volume Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explores several late-antique and medieval Syriac hagiographical works from the complementary perspectives of literature and cult.
9789004445291
Electronic books.
BX4662 .S975 2021
Syriac Hagiography : Texts and Beyond. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (382 pages) - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity Series ; v.20 . - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Sigla and Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction (Minov and Ruani) -- Part 1. Texts as Literature -- Chapter 1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiography (Mellon Saint-Laurent) -- Chapter 2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Medieval Syriac Milieu (Durmaz) -- Chapter 3. Objects as Narrative Devices in Syriac Hagiography (Ruani) -- Part 2. Saints Textualized -- Chapter 4. Pope Sylvester: How to Create a Saint-The Syriac Contribution to the Sylvestrian Hagiography (Di Rienzo) -- Chapter 5. The Syriac Martyrdom of the Mimes and the Performance of Biblical Recitation: Questions of Power and Contexts (Horn) -- Chapter 6. The Syriac Life of Mār Yāret the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a Monastic Holy Man in Early Medieval Mesopotamia (Minov) -- Chapter 7. Prose, Poetry, and Hagiography: The Martyrdoms of Jacob the Persian and Tahmizgard in Syriac Story and Song (Bremer-McCollum) -- Chapter 8. The Memory of the Persian Martyrs in St Nikodemos' Synaxaristes (1819) (Brock) -- Part 3. Beyond the Texts -- Chapter 9. Between Gift and Commodity: The Distribution of Tokens and Material Substances at the Pilgrimage Sites of Stylites (Boero) -- Chapter 10. St Stephen in Amida in a New mimro of Jacob of Serugh: Christianity vs Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious Shrines (Debié) -- Scriptural Index -- Index of Ancient Sources.
The collective volume Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explores several late-antique and medieval Syriac hagiographical works from the complementary perspectives of literature and cult.
9789004445291
Electronic books.
BX4662 .S975 2021