Martyrdom and persecution in late antique Christianity
Subtitle: festschrift Boudewijn Dehandschutter
By: edited by J. Leemans
Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- CCXLI; Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 241.
Publisher: Uitgeverij Peeters
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9789042924697
Subjects: Primitive and early church; History; Martyrdom; Martyrium; Christianity; Church history; Christian hagiography; Christenverfolgung; Kirchenväter; Frühchristentum
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

English and German.
Table of contents: title: Loquacious locals : two indigenous martyrs in the homilies of Severus of Antioch  -- Pauline Allen; title: Martyr und Martyrium bei Gregorius dem Grossen  -- Gerard J.M. Bartelink; title: Ägyptische Märtyrerhagiographie im frühen Mönchtum Palästinas  -- Theofried Baumeister; title: Notiunculae martyrologicae VI : Passio perpetuae 2, 16 and 17  -- Jan den Boeft, Jan N. Bremmer; title: The reception of the martyrdom of Cyprian of Carthage in early Christian literature  -- Geoffrey D. Dunn; title: Augustine's anti-Pelagian interpretation of two martyr sermons : Sermones 299 and 335B on the unnaturalness of human death  -- Anthony Dupont; title: "He left us this writing" : did he? Revisiting the statement in Martyrdom of Pionius 1.2  -- Anton Hilhorst; title: A forgotten witness : recovering the early Church Slavonic version of the Martyrdom of Polycarp  -- Taras Khomych; title: Hagiography and historical-critical analysis : the earliest layer of the dossier of Theodore the Recruit (BHG 1760 and 1761)  -- Johan Leemans; title: The late antique church at Qausīyeh reconsidered : memory and martyr burial in Syrian Antioch  -- Wendy Mayer; title: From tristia to gaudia : the exile and martyrdom of Pope Martin I  -- Bronwen Neil; title: Die Leiblichkeit der Gepeinigten : das Evangelium nach Petrus und frühchristliche Märtyrerakten  -- Tobias Nicklas; title: "Deum qui fecit caelum et terram" : identifying the God of Christians in the acts of martyrs  -- László Perendy; title: The figure of Socrates in the early Christian Acta martyrum  -- Geert Roskam; title: Fasti und Sanctorale : religiöse Kreativität und Historisierung von Religion in der Spätantike  -- Jörg Rüpke; title: Peter as martyr in the Fourth Gospel  -- Gilbert Van Belle; title: The panegyric of Polycarp of Smyrna attributed to Metrophanes of Smyrna (BHG 1563)  -- Peter Van Deun; title: The Christianization of the Maccabean martyrs : the case of Origen  -- Jan Willem van Henten; title: Pain and glory : some introductory comments on the rhetorical qualities and potential of the Martyrs of Palestine by Eusebius of Caesarea  -- Joseph Verheyden; title: The use of the Bible in the North African martyrological polemics of late antiquity -- Jonathan P. Yates.