A late antique harrowing of hell and its medieval reception : Eusebius of Alexandria's sermons 15 and 17 (CPG 5524 and 5526) and their Latin rewritings / Rémi Gounelle, Aidan Conti, Zbigniew Izydorczyk ; with a contribution by Diane Niquin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gounelle, Rémi, Author.

Conti, Aidan, Author.

Izydorczyk, Zbigniew S., 1956- author.

Series:

Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia ; 1379-9878 99.

Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia, 1379-9878 ; 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Descent into hell--Sermons.

Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

551 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2026.

Summary:

"In 1904, Edward Kennard Rand published a Latin sermon by an unknown author from a single manuscript of the ninth century that recounts the amazement of the devil at the crucifixion of Jesus and the devil’s defeat at the coming of Christ into the underworld, or the Harrowing of Hell. This Sermo de confusione diaboli et inferni added a new dimension to the already complex body of research on the sermons attributed to pseudo-Eusebius of Alexandria and the Gospel of Nicodemus. A century later, new witnesses of the text edited by Rand and an unedited Latin translation of pseudo-Eusebius’ Sermo 17 have begun to shed new light on the interconnectedness of all these materials. The present book critically edits the newly identified Latin documents and discusses them in relation to their Greek source(s) and to one another. It retraces the paths from the protean forms of pseudo-Eusebius’ Greek sermons 15 and 17 to their Latin translations, to the Sermo de confusione diaboli et inferni, and to the Gospel of Nicodemus. In the process, it highlights the creativity of the copyists and translators of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and demonstrates their profound interest and investment in the story of Christ’s Descent into Hell." Provided by publisher

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-531) and index.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9782503614465

2503614469

OCLC:

1594079186

Publisher Number:

9782503614465