Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Surviving Martyrdom

ISBN-13: 9781032261065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 342 str.

Diane Fruchtman

Opis

This book shows that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west. It studies three authors who attempted to create a new paradigm of martyrdom focused on living, rather than dying, for God.

Suitable for those interested in Christian history, religious studies, and martyrological discourse.

Recenzje

"Though others have written about the interweaving of Christian identity and martyrdom and the inculcation of a martyrological way-of-life, there is a welcome sharpness to Fruchtman’s work that refines the terms and allows readers to see the stakes... Fruchtman’s detailed study of the role of martyrial consciousness in Christian self-fashioning and spiritual regimen is an important intervention in the conversation and must-read for students and scholars of Christian martyrdom." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"Fruchtman’s method is close to the ground. She recovers the imaginative reality of living martyrdom by paying attention to, and taking seriously, the linguistic and rhetorical choices of her authors; she is especially sensitive to moments of fissure, incongruity, or excess that signal modes of changing perceptions, and she is equally sensitive to context as a way to control her evidence... This is a terrific book." - Journal of Early Christian Studies

Spis treści

Introduction—Rethinking Martyrdom, 1. Destabilizing Death: Prudentius’s Peristephanon, 2. Modeling the Living Martyr: Witness in and Through Poetry, 3. Paulinus of Nola and the Living Martyr, 4. Making Martyrs in the Nolan Countryside, 5. Non Poena Sed Causa, 6. Augustine and the Life of Martyrdom, Conclusion—Surviving Martyrdom: History, Historiography, and Power.

O autorze

Diane Shane Fruchtman is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey.