"The author presents the case that martyrdom narratives should not be studied with traditional criteria applied in favor of or against their authenticity, and that the question of what kind of texts are being studied is here addressed more satisfactorily than it has been thus fa…
"The author presents the case that martyrdom narratives should not be studied with traditional criteria applied in favor of or against their authenticity, and that the question of what kind of texts are being studied is here addressed more satisfactorily than it has been thus fa…
"The author presents the case that martyrdom narratives should not be studied with traditional criteria applied in favor of or against their authenticity, and that the question of what kind of texts are being studied is here addressed more satisfactorily than it has been thus fa…
From Eusebius of Caesarea, who first compiled a collection of martyr narratives around 300, to Thierry Ruinart, whose Acta primorum martyrum sincera et selecta was published in 1689, the selection and study of early hagiographic narratives has been founded on an assumption that …
"The author presents the case that martyrdom narratives should not be studied with traditional criteria applied in favor of or against their authenticity, and that the question of what kind of texts are being studied is here addressed more satisfactorily than it has been thus fa…
"The author presents the case that martyrdom narratives should not be studied with traditional criteria applied in favor of or against their authenticity, and that the question of what kind of texts are being studied is here addressed more satisfactorily than it has been thus fa…
[Flaptekst] Les études rassemblées ici ont été présentées lors d'une rencontre organisée par l'Istituto Patristico Augustinianum et l'École Française de Rome en décembre 1995. Elles proposent quelques éclairages sur la façon dont se constitue la figure de l'évêque, entre la fin …