A collection of Pollmann's previously-published essays on early Christian poetry, most newly-translated from German and all updated and corrected. It is a genre that has tended to be overlooked by both Classicists and Patristics scholars and this collection will rectify that.
A collection of Pollmann's previously-published essays on early Christian poetry, most newly-translated from German and all updated and corrected. It is a genre that has tended to be overlooked by both Classicists and Patristics scholars and this collection will rectify that.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Karla Pollmann is Professor of Classics and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading. Professor Pollmann is the co-editor of Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) and Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2005). She is also Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (OUP, 2013).
Inhaltsangabe
* I. Introduction: How to Approach Early Christian Poetry * II. The Poetics of Authority in Early Christian Poetry * 1: Tradition and Innovation. The Transformation of Classical Literary Genres in Christian Late Antiquity * 2: The Test Case of Epic Poetry in Late Antiquity * 3: Re-appropriation and Disavowal: Pagan and Christian Authorities in Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus * III. Christian Authority and Poetic Succession * 1: Sex and Salvation in the Vergilian Cento of the Fourth Century * 2: Versifying Authoritative Prose: Poetical Paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyon from Venantius Fortunatus to Siegbert of Gembloux * 3: Jesus Christ and Dionysus: Rewriting Euripides in the Byzantine Cento Christus Patiens * IV. Poetic Authority in Rivalling Cultural and Theological Discourses * 1: Culture as Curse or Blessing? Prudentius and Avitus on the Origins of Culture * 2: Christianity as Decadence or Progress in Pseudo-Hilary s Paraphrastic Verse Summary of the History of Salvation * 3: How Far Can Sainthood Go? St Martin of Tours in Two Hagiographic Epics of Late Antiquity * V. Conclusion: Authority as a Key to Understanding Early Christian Poetry * VI. Bibliography
* I. Introduction: How to Approach Early Christian Poetry * II. The Poetics of Authority in Early Christian Poetry * 1: Tradition and Innovation. The Transformation of Classical Literary Genres in Christian Late Antiquity * 2: The Test Case of Epic Poetry in Late Antiquity * 3: Re-appropriation and Disavowal: Pagan and Christian Authorities in Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus * III. Christian Authority and Poetic Succession * 1: Sex and Salvation in the Vergilian Cento of the Fourth Century * 2: Versifying Authoritative Prose: Poetical Paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyon from Venantius Fortunatus to Siegbert of Gembloux * 3: Jesus Christ and Dionysus: Rewriting Euripides in the Byzantine Cento Christus Patiens * IV. Poetic Authority in Rivalling Cultural and Theological Discourses * 1: Culture as Curse or Blessing? Prudentius and Avitus on the Origins of Culture * 2: Christianity as Decadence or Progress in Pseudo-Hilary s Paraphrastic Verse Summary of the History of Salvation * 3: How Far Can Sainthood Go? St Martin of Tours in Two Hagiographic Epics of Late Antiquity * V. Conclusion: Authority as a Key to Understanding Early Christian Poetry * VI. Bibliography
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