Panzram / Klinck The Making of Saints in Late Antique North Africa

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-515-13728-7
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 28, 347 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Beiträge zur Hagiographie

The "Making of Saints" is a phenomenon of central significance to Christianity since a vision-inspired Ambrosius discovered the remains of the martyrs Gervasius and Protasius in 386 AD in Milan. In North Africa it seems to have taken on an extremely interesting form that makes Brent D. Shaw speaking of the blood of the martyrs as "the vital force, the kinetic energy powering Christian life in Africa".

This volume contributes to the productively expanding research field of North African Christianity by providing narrative analyses on the one hand and presenting case studies from an archaeological perspective on the other, which allow a comparative perspective of the phenomenon in order to systematically combine them: narrative alone did not "make" a martyr, architectural staging too was needed – the story made the martyr and the staging made the saint. The multidisciplinary approach brings together the most recent results concerning excavations and epigraphy, but also an innovative conceptual understanding of text, space, and – last but not least – religion, in order to examine the social function that the veneration of martyrs had in a longue durée perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panzram, Sabine

Klinck, Nathalie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike

Über Autor(innen)

Klinck, Nathalie
Nathalie Klinck is research associate at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies 'RomanIslam - Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies' at the University of Hamburg. Her PhD thesis focussed on the social function of the veneration of female martyrs in Late Antique North Africa.

Panzram, Sabine
Sabine Panzram ist Professorin für Alte Geschichte an der Universität Hamburg. Sie forscht zur Sozialgeschichte der Macht im westlichen Mittelmeerraum und insbesondere zur Stadtgeschichte auf der Iberischen Halbinsel. Derzeit arbeitet sie an einer Kulturgeschichte dieser Region in der Spätantike.