Syriac hagiography
Subtitle: texts and beyond
By: edited by Sergey Minov, Flavia Ruani
Series: Text and studies in Eastern Christianity -- volume 20
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9789004445284; 9789004445291
Subjects: Syriac Christian saints; Biography; History and criticism; Christian hagiography; History
Description: "Chapters gathered in Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond explore a wide range of Syriac hagiographical works, while following two complementary methodological approaches, i.e. literary and cultic, or formal and functional. Grouped into three main sections, these contributions reflect three interrelated ways in which we can read Syriac hagiography and further grasp its characteristics: "Texts as Literature" seeks to unfold the mechanisms of their literary composition; "Saints Textualized" offers a different perspective on the role played by hagiographical texts in the invention and/or maintenance of the cult of a particular saint or group of saints; "Beyond the Texts" presents cases in which the historical reality behind the nexus of hagiographical texts and veneration of saints can be observed in greater details"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sergey Minov and Flavia Ruani; title: Part I. Texts as Literature: 1. Prologues as Narthexes in Syriac Hagiographies / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent; title: 2. Hearing Sanctity: Oral Performance and Aural Consumption of Hagiographical Stories in the Late Antique and Medieval Syriac Milieu / Reyhan Durmaz; title: 3. Objects as Narrative Devices in Syriac Hagiography / Flavia Ruani; title: Part II. Saints Textualized: 4. Pope Sylvester: How to Create a Saint: The Syriac Contribution to the Sylvestrian Hagiography / Annunziata Di Rienzo; title: 5. The Syriac Martyrdom of the Mimes and the Performance of Biblical Recitation: Questions of Power and Contexts / Cornelia Horn; title: 6. The Syriac Life of Mār Yāret the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a Monastic Holy Man in Early Medieval Mesopotamia / Sergey Minov; title: 7. Prose, Poetry, and Hagiography: The Martyrdoms of Jacob the Persian and Tahmizgard in Syriac Story and Song / Adam Carter Bremer-McCollum; title: 8. The Memory of the Persian Martyrs in St Nikodemos' Synaxaristes (1819) / Sebastian P. Brock; title: Part III. Beyond the Texts: 9. Between Gift and Commodity: The Distribution of Tokens and Material Substances at the Pilgrimage Sites of Stylites / Dina Boero; title: 10. St Stephen in Amida in a New mimro of Jacob of Serugh: Christianity vs Zoroastrianism in a Clash of Religious Shrines / Muriel Debié; title: Index.