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Martyrdom --- Christian martyrs --- Christianity --- History --- History of doctrines --- Martyrdom - Christianity - History --- Martyrdom - Christianity - History of doctrines --- Christian martyrs - History --- Martyres

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The present volume's focus lies on the formation of a multifaccetted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres emerge, e.g., the Lives of Saints (Athanasius on Antony), sermons (the Cappadocians), hynms (Prudentius) and more. Authors like Eusebius of Caesarea and Augustine employ martyrological language and motifs in their apologetical and polemic writings, while the Gesta Martyrum Romanorum represent a new type of veneration of the martyrs of a single site. Beyond the borders of the Roman Empire, new martyrs' narratives can be found. Additionally, two essays deal with methodological questions of research of such sources, thereby highlighting the hitherto understudied innovations of martyrology in Late Antiquity, that is, after the end of the persecutions of Christianity by Roman Emperors. Since then, martyrology gained new importance for the formation of Christian identity within the context of a Christianized imperium. The volume thus enlarges and specifies our knowledge of this fundamental Christian discourse.

Martyrdom -- Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Martyrdom --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- History --- Death --- Suffering --- Martyrs --- Religious aspects --- Hagiography. --- Late Antiquity. --- Martyrdom. --- Martyrdom - Christianity - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Martyres

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"La religion chrétienne est aujourd'hui la plus menacée au monde. 150 à 200 millions de chrétiens (catholiques, protestants, orthodoxes) sont discriminés ou persécutés à travers la planète. Au Proche-Orient, en Afrique subsaharienne, en Asie, les chrétiens sont la cible de groupes armés et d'organisations terroristes. Ils subissent aussi des pressions sociales et des répressions d'appareils d'État. Surveillance, intimidations, assassinats, "épuration religieuse" comme en Irak sur le territoire de l'État islamique : la condition des chrétiens provoque une inquiétude de plus en plus forte dans la communauté internationale. Plus qu'une question de liberté religieuse, cette hostilité grandissante compromet l'existence même d'une civilisation et de ses valeurs. Le sort des chrétiens interpelle non seulement les croyants, mais aussi les non-croyants, les intellectuels, les gouvernements et les organisations non-gouvernementales."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Persecution --- Martyrdom --- Death --- Suffering --- Martyrs --- Christians --- Religious persecution --- Atrocities --- History --- Christianity --- Religious aspects --- Persecutions --- Persécutions --- Martyre --- Histoire --- Christianisme --- Persecution - History - 21st century --- Martyrdom - Christianity - History - 21st century --- Persécutions - Histoire - 21e siècle --- Martyre - Christianisme - Histoire - 21e siècle

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This volume explores the phenomenon of Christian martyrdom and ideas of ?following Christ,? in particular focusing on theological and pragmatic difficulties in the early Christian period. How can martyrs successfully follow Christ without themselves entering into a competition with Christ? What happens when the idea of following Christ so faithfully as to experience martyrdom becomes impossible because of the fundamentally different living situation of the faithful? How are model and imitation shaped in comparison to pagan exempla? Contributions from archaeology, classical philology, ancient history, theology, and art history suggest some answers to these questions, drawing equally on ancient literature and material culture.

Christian martyrs in art --- Christian martyrs in art. --- Christian martyrs in literature --- Christian martyrs in literature. --- Martyrdom --- Christianity --- History --- Christianity. --- Imitatio Christi --- Imitatio Christi. --- Martyrdom - Christianity - History - Congresses. --- Christian martyrs in art - Congresses. --- Christian martyrs in literature - Congresses. --- Martyres

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The Oratorian priest Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605) devoted his life to writing about saints. The thread running through his hagiographical oeuvre was renunciation of this world: humility, subservience and endurance. Yet he engaged with the expertise of lay people, jurists, physicians and engineers, so as to appeal to their interests and convert them. In order to emphasize how saints endured torture, healed disease and exercised piety rather than ingenuity, Gallonio ventured into those secular disciplines, even if he did not endorse them. This book surveys Gallonio’s published and unpublished works and his position in Roman society, to expose the tensions between a theocratic clergy and the self-assertion of skilled and scholarly professionals in the Italian Counter-Reformation.

Christian church history --- Christian hagiography. --- Martyrdom --- Church history. --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Martyre --- Eglise --- Christianity --- History. --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Gallonio, Antonio, --- Christian hagiography --- Church history --- History --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- Death --- Suffering --- Martyrs --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Religious aspects --- Galloni, Ant. --- Galloni, Antonio, --- Martyrdom - Christianity - History --- Gallonio, Antonio --- Gallonio, Antonio, - -1605