Proba the Prophet

The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-26472-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 378, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature

In Proba the Prophet: The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed offers an in-depth study and reappraisal of the Cento of Proba and its reception. Proba's poem belongs to the few extant Latin texts from Antiquity penned by a woman writer, and one of the oldest Christian Latin poems. Schottenius Cullhed surveys and challenges common preconceptions and biographical constructions of the poem's author and early readers, and examines their impact on interpretations and evaluations of the text. The author also develops and puts to use an alternative model for understanding the poem and convincingly shows how the Virgilian source texts form a complex net of internal and external biblical typologies within the Cento.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schottenius Cullhed, Sigrid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures

Introduction
1. Proba the Poet
2. Proba and her Critics
3. Proba in the Republic of Women
4. The Confessions of Proba
5. Centonizing Genesis
6. The Gospel of Proba

Appendix: The Cento

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed, Ph.D. (2012), University of Gothenburg, is a researcher at the department of Comparative Literature at Uppsala University. She has published mainly on early women writers.