Syriac hagiography : texts and beyond / edited by Sergey Minov, Flavia Ruani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minov, Sergey, editor.

Ruani, Flavia, editor.

Series:

Text and studies in Eastern Christianity ; volume 20.

Text and studies in Eastern Christianity ; volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Syriac Christian saints--Biography--History and criticism.

Syriac Christian saints.

Christian hagiography--History.

Christian hagiography.

History.

Biography.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 372 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021.

Summary:

"Chapters gathered in Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explore a wide range of Syriac hagiographical works, while following two complementary methodological approaches, i.e. literary and cultic, or formal and functional. Grouped into three main sections, these contributions reflect three interrelated ways in which we can read Syriac hagiography and further grasp its characteristics: "Texts as Literature" seeks to unfold the mechanisms of their literary composition; "Saints Textualized" offers a different perspective on the role played by hagiographical texts in the invention and/or maintenance of the cult of a particular saint or group of saints; "Beyond the Texts" presents cases in which the historical reality behind the nexus of hagiographical texts and veneration of saints can be observed in greater details"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Sergey Minov and Flavia Ruani

Part I. Texts as Literature: 1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiographies / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Medieval Syriac Milieu / Reyhan Durmaz

3. Objects as Narrative Devices in Syriac Hagiography / Flavia Ruani

Part II. Saints Textualized: 4. Pope Sylvester: How to Create a Saint: The Syriac Contribution to the Sylvestrian Hagiography / Annunziata Di Rienzo

5. The Syriac Martyrdom of the Mimes and the Performance of Biblical Recitation: Questions of Power and Contexts / Cornelia Horn

6. The Syriac Life of Mār Yāret the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a Monastic Holy Man in Early Medieval Mesopotamia / Sergey Minov

7. Prose, Poetry, and Hagiography: The Martyrdoms of Jacob the Persian and Tahmizgard in Syriac Story and Song / Adam Carter Bremer-McCollum

8. The Memory of the Persian Martyrs in St Nikodemos' Synaxaristes (1819) / Sebastian P. Brock

Part III. Beyond the Texts: 9. Between Gift and Commodity: The Distribution of Tokens and Material Substances at the Pilgrimage Sites of Stylites / Dina Boero

10. St Stephen in Amida in a New mimro of Jacob of Serugh: Christianity vs Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious Shrines / Muriel Debié

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004445284

9004445285

OCLC:

1198557226

Publisher Number:

99986332511