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The Lives of Saint Constantia
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ISBN: 9780198854425 0198854420 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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Constantina, daughter of the fourth-century emperor Constantine who so famously converted to Christianity, deserves a place of her own in the history of Christianity. As both poet and church-builder, she was an early patron of the Roman cult of the virgin martyr Agnes and was buried ad sanctam in a sumptuously mosaicked mausoleum that still stands. What has been very nearly forgotten is that the twice-married Constantina also came to be viewed as a virgin saint in her own right, said to have been converted and healed of leprosy by Saint Agnes. This volume publishes for the first time critical editions and English translations of three Latin hagiographies dedicated to the empress, offering an introduction and commentaries to contextualize these virtually unknown works. The earliest and longest of them is the anonymous Life of Saint Constantina likely dating to the mid or late sixth century, reflecting a female monastic setting and featuring both a story of pope Silvester's instruction of Constantina and a striking dialogue between Constantina and twelve virgins who offer speeches in praise of virginity as the summum bonum. A second, slightly later work, On the Feast of Saint Constantia (the misnaming of the saint reflecting common0confusion), is a more streamlined account apparently tailored for liturgical use in early seventh-century Rome; this text is reworked and expanded by the twelfth-century Roman scholar Nicolaus Maniacoria in his Life of the Blessed Constantia, including a question-and-answer dialogue between Constantina and her two virginal charges Attica and Artemia. These works will be of great interest to students of late ancient and medieval saints' cults, hagiography, monasticism, and women's history.


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Vie d'Isarn, abbé de Saint-Victor de Marseille, XIe siècle
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ISBN: 9782251340593 2251340599 Year: 2010 Volume: 48 Publisher: Paris : Les Belles lettres,


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Codex hagiographiques du Louvre sur papyrus.
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ISBN: 9782840508946 284050894X Year: 2013 Volume: 2 Publisher: Paris : Pups - Pu Paris Sorbonne,

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Acquis par le musée du Louvre à la fin du XIXe siècle, ces manuscrits furent en partie publiés en 1889. Après la découverte de nouveaux fragments dans les collections du musée à la fin des années 1990, Laurent Capron a pu restaurer, identifier et corriger un ensemble d'une cinquantaine de pages de codex, ici publiées. Il s'est appuyé sur la tradition médiévale pour compléter ces textes.0.

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