TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Narrating power and authority in late antique and medieval hagiography across east and west
T2  - Fabulae
A2  - Dabiri, Ghazzal, 1975- toimittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Turnhout
PB  - Brepols
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5637000
AB  - This collection of essays explores the multifaceted representation of power and authority in a variety of late antique and medieval hagiographical narratives (Lives, Martyr Acts, oneiric and miraculous accounts). The narratives under analysis, written in some of the major languages of the Islamicate world and the Christian East and Christian West -- Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Latin, Middle Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Persian -- prominently feature a diverse range of historical and fictional figures from a wide cross-section of society -- from female lay saints in Italy and Zoroastrians in Sasanian and Islamic Iran to apostles and bishops and emperors and caliphs. Each chapter investigates how power and authority were narrated from above (courts/saints) and below (saints/laity) and, by extension, navigated in various communities. As each chapter delves into the specific literary and social scene of a particular time, place, or hagiographer, the volume as a whole offers a broad view; it brings to the fore important shared literary and social historical aspects such as the possible itineraries of popular narratives and motifs across Eurasia and commonly held notions in the religio-political thought worlds of hagiographers and their communities. Through close readings and varied analyses, this collection contributes to the burgeoning interest in reading hagiography as literature while it offers new perspectives on the social and religious history of late antique and medieval communities.
NO  - "The present volume is based on the international conference 'Narrating Power and Authority in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography from East to West', that was held in Rome, Italy at the Academia Belgica in February 2018"
SN  - 978-2-503-59065-3 kovakantinen
KW  - Före 1500
KW  - Power (Social sciences) in literature.
KW  - Authority in literature.
KW  - Religion and literature : History : To 1500.
KW  - Hagiography : History : To 1500.
KW  - Church history
KW  - Hagiography
KW  - Hagiografi
KW  - Helgonbiografier
KW  - Kristendom : historia
KW  - Islam : historia
KW  - Religion och litteratur : historia
KW  - Makt (samhällsvetenskap) i litteraturen : historia
KW  - Auktoritet i litteraturen : historia
KW  - myöhäisantiikki
KW  - keskiaika
KW  - valta
KW  - hagiografiat
KW  - kirkkohistoria
KW  - kristinusko
KW  - islam
ER  -