The Making of Saints in Late Antique North Africa / edited by Sabine Panzram and Nathalie Klinck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Panzram, Sabine, editor.

Klinck, Nathalie., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2024]

Summary:

The "Making of Saints" is a phenomenon of central significance to Christianity since a vision-inspired Ambrosius discovered the remains of the martyrs Gervasius and Protasius in 386 AD in Milan. In North Africa it seems to have taken on an extremely interesting form that makes Brent D. Shaw speaking of the blood of the martyrs as "the vital force, the kinetic energy powering Christian life in Africa".This volume contributes to the productively expanding research field of North African Christianity by providing narrative analyses on the one hand and presenting case studies from an archaeological perspective on the other, which allow a comparative perspective of the phenomenon in order to systematically combine them: narrative alone did not "make" a martyr, architectural staging too was needed the story made the martyr and the staging made the saint. The multidisciplinary approach brings together the most recent results concerning excavations and epigraphy, but also an innovative conceptual understanding of text, space, and last but not least religion, in order to examine the social function that the veneration of martyrs had in a longue durée perspective.

Contents:

Intro

Titel

Impressum

Preface and Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Prologue

Sabine Panzram - The Making of Saints in Late Antique North Africa. Between Story Telling and Architectural Staging

Éric Rebillard - Early African Martyr Narratives as Living Texts

Part One The Story Made the Martyr?

Alice van den Bosch - A Witness for the Defence. St Salsa at Tipasa

Nathalie Klinck - The Making of Female Martyrs. The Cases of the Mauritanian Saints Salsa of Tipasa and Marciana of Caesarea

Daniel Syrbe - The "Military Saints" of Late Antique North Africa and the Christian Discourse on Military Service

Bruno Pottier - The Passion of the Martyrs of Abitinae and the Role of Lay Notables in the Donatist Church

Robert Wisniewski - Some Relics, a Bishop, a Curse, and Four Sermons. Constructing the Cult of a Saint in Late Antique Hippo

Part Two Saints and the City - The Architectural Stagin

Anna Leone / Tommaso Giuliodoro - Between Religion and Protection. Military Saints and their Cults in Late Antique North Africa

Moheddine Chaouali - New Views on the Episcopate of African Cities during Late Antiquity. The Cases of Bulla Regia and Mustis

Stefan Ardeleanu - Sacralizing the Martyr's House in Late Antique North Africa. Architectural, Textual and Visual Features in the Making of Martyr Shrines and the Complexity of Local Martyrscapes at Tipasa

Ralf Bockmann - Bonding Experiences. Saints Joining Past and Present in Byzantine North Africa

Epilogue

Éric Fournier - Eternal Persecutions. Cultural Trauma and Memory of the Martyrs in Vandal North Africa

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Index of Places, Persons, and Subjects.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783515137287

3515137289

OCLC:

1450838262