Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond

By:

Minov, Sergey and Ruani, Flavia [editors]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity - 20Publication details: Leiden Brill 2021Description: 372pISBN:

9789004445291

DDC classification:

E66 M666

Contents:

PART 1 Texts as Literature 1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiography Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent 2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Medieval Syriac Milieu Reyhan Durmaz 3. Objects as Narrative Devices in Syriac Hagiography Flavia Ruani PART 2 Saints Textualized 4. Pope Sylvester: How to Create a Saint-The Syriac Contribution to the Sylvestrian Hagiography Annunziata Di Rienzo 5. The Syriac Martyrdom of the Mimes and the Performance of Biblical Recitation: Questions of Power and Contexts Cornelia Horn 6. The Syriac Life of Mar Yaret the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a Monastic Holy Man in Early Medieval Mesopotamia Sergey Minov 7. Prose, Poetry, and Hagiography: The Martyrdoms of Jacob the Persian and Tahmizgard in Syriac Story and Song Adam Carter Bremer-McCollum 8. The Memory of the Persian Martyrs in St Nikodemos' Synaxaristes (1819) Sebastian P. Brock PART 3 Beyond the Texts 9. Between Gift and Commodity: The Distribution of Tokens and Material Substances at the Pilgrimage Sites of Stylites Dina Boero 10. St Stephen in Amida in a New mimro of Jacob of Serugh: Christianity vs Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious Shrines Muriel Debié

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PART 1
Texts as Literature
1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiography
Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of
Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Medieval Syriac
Milieu
Reyhan Durmaz
3. Objects as Narrative Devices in Syriac Hagiography
Flavia Ruani
PART 2
Saints Textualized
4. Pope Sylvester: How to Create a Saint-The Syriac Contribution to the
Sylvestrian Hagiography
Annunziata Di Rienzo
5. The Syriac Martyrdom of the Mimes and the Performance of Biblical
Recitation: Questions of Power and Contexts
Cornelia Horn
6. The Syriac Life of Mar Yaret the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a
Monastic Holy Man in Early Medieval Mesopotamia
Sergey Minov
7. Prose, Poetry, and Hagiography: The Martyrdoms of Jacob the Persian
and Tahmizgard in Syriac Story and Song
Adam Carter Bremer-McCollum
8. The Memory of the Persian Martyrs in St Nikodemos' Synaxaristes
(1819)
Sebastian P. Brock
PART 3
Beyond the Texts
9. Between Gift and Commodity: The Distribution of Tokens and Material
Substances at the Pilgrimage Sites of Stylites
Dina Boero
10. St Stephen in Amida in a New mimro of Jacob of Serugh: Christianity vs
Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious Shrines
Muriel Debié

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