Title: More than a memory : the discourse of martyrdom and the construction of Christian identity in the history of Christianity /
Authors: Leemans, Johan, 1965-
Publisher: Peeters,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Martyrdom Christianity History.
Contents: Pt. 1. Late antiquity. A community of martyrs : religious identity and the case of the martyrs of Lyons and Vienne / Boudewijn Dehandschutter -- "A testimony to the non-believers, a blessing to the believers" : the Passio Perpetuae and the construction of a Christian identity / Sabine Van Den Eynde -- Martyr, monk and victor of paganism : an analysis of Basil of Caesarea's Panegyrical sermon on Gordius / Johan Leemans -- The emergence of the cult of the Maccabean martyrs in late Antique Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst -- An early Christian identity crisis triggered by changes in the discourse of martyrdom : the controversy between Jerome of Strido and Vigilantius of Calagurris / Josef Lössl -- Augustine's appropriation of Cyprian the martyr-bishop against the Pelagians / Jonathan Yates -- pt. 2. Middle Ages. More than an image : Agnes of Rome : virginity and visual memory / Barbara Baert -- The cult of St. Alban, Anglorum Protomartyr, in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England / Paul Antony Hayward -- Fear in Late-Medieval English martyr legends / Karen A. Winstead -- Gendering Medieval martyrdom : thirteenth-century lives of holy women in the low countries / Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker.