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Christian hagiography --- History and criticism --- Rome --- History --- Historiography --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Historiography. --- Christian hagiography - History and criticism --- Hagiographie --- Historiographie --- Rome - History - Empire, 30 BC-476 AD - Historiography

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Heiligenviten können nur vor dem Hintergrund umfassender Kenntnisse der biblischen Bücher gelesen, verstanden und gedeutet werden. Es wäre ein großer Fehler, den Umgang mit biblischen Texten in bedeutenden Heiligenviten als bloßen Topos zu entwerten. Den Heiligen und den Autor seiner Vita verband eine umfassende Kenntnis der biblischen Bücher, die auch bei den Lesern vorausgesetzt wurde. Rang und Bedeutung des Heiligen erschließen sich erst, wenn man die Einbettung seiner Entscheidungen, seines Lebens in den Kosmos biblischer Geschichten und Gestalten wahrnimmt denn diese zeugten von einem gottgesetzten Maß. Nicht erst der Autor der Vita stilisierte einen Menschen auf solches Maß hin, der Heilige selbst wollte solchem Maß gerecht werden, soweit das im irdischen Leben möglich ist. Die sacra bibliotheca war ihnen eine reichhaltige Quelle, hier erfuhr der demütige Leser das Maß bedeutenden Lebens, wie der Schöpfer es gesetzt hatte, wie es immer wieder neu gelebt werden mußte.

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Gegenstand des Buches sind die literarischen Gemeinplätze (Topoi) in der griechischen mittelalterlichen Heiligenliteratur. Thomas Pratsch bietet hier zum einen eine umfassende Materialsammlung, die eine vollständige Systematik der Topoi enthält. Daneben gelangt er zu neuen Ergebnissen hinsichtlich der Verwendung der Topoi und der Frage ihres historischen Wertes sowie der Entstehung, Überlieferung und Entwicklung griechischer Heiligenviten. Dabei zeichnet er unter anderem die schrittweise Entstehung einer Heiligenvita aus verschiedenen anderen literarischen Formen nach und untermauert aus einem neuen Blickwinkel die These der Kanonisierung der griechischen Heiligenliteratur gegen Ende des 10. und im Laufe des 11. Jahrhunderts. Ein Referenzwerk zur byzantinischen hagiographischen Literatur. This is the first systematic study of literary formulae (topoi) in Greek medieval lives of the saints. Thomas Pratsch compiles a comprehensive collection of material, including a systematic catalogue of the topoi. In his evaluation of them he provides new insights into the genesis, transmission and historical development of the genre of Greek saints' vitae. He traces the gradual development of the vitae from various other literary forms and, working from a new perspective, lends support to the thesis that a canon of Greek lives of the saints became established from the end of the 10th century and into the 11th century. This study is a valuable reference work on Byzantine hagiographic literature.

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The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood throws fresh light on narratives about Christian holy men and women from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the relationship between story and reality, it asks what literary choices authors made in depicting their heroes and heroines: how they positioned the narrator, how they responded to existing texts, how they utilised or transcended genre conventions for their own purposes, and how they sought to relate to their audiences. The literary focus of the chapters assembled here showcases the diversity of hagiographical texts written in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac, as well as pointing out the ongoing conversations that connect them. By asking these questions of this diverse group of texts, it illuminates the literary development of hagiography in the late antique, Byzantine, and medieval periods.

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Jocelin of Furness (fl.1175x1214), the Cistercian hagiographer, composed four substantial and significant saints' lives; varying widely in both subject and patron, they offer a rich corpus of medieval hagiographical writing. Jocelin's Vita S. Patricii and Vita S. Kentegerni provide updated versions of each saint's legend and are carefully adapted to reflect the interests of their respective patrons in Ireland and Scotland. The Vita S. Helenae was probably commissioned by a female community in England; it represents an idealized narrative mirror of its early thirteenth-century context. In contrast, the Vita S. Waldevi was written to promote the formal canonization of a new saint, Waltheof (d.1159), abbot of the Cistercian house of Melrose in the Scottish borders.
This is the first full-length study of the Lives. It combines detailed analyses of the composition of the texts with study of their patronage, audiences, and contemporary contexts; and it provides new insights into Jocelin's works and the writing of hagiography in the period.

Helen Birkett is a Mellon Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.

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