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Author(s): Pollmann, Karla
ISBN(s): 9780198726487, 0198726481
Edition: First edition
File Details: PDF, 1.36 MB
Year: 2017
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  0198726487

ISBN 13: 9780198726487

Author: Pollmann

The document discusses ‘The Baptized Muse: Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority’ by Karla Pollmann, which explores the significance of early Christian poetry and its cultural authority. It includes a collection of articles that reflect Pollmann’s research over two decades, aiming to make these works more accessible to the academic community. The book addresses the challenges faced by early Christian poetry in being recognized within both classical and theological studies due to its perceived literary quality and relevance.
 

Table of contents: 

PART I. 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. Reappropriation and Disavowal: Pagan and Christian Authorities in Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus

PART II. CHRISTIAN AUTHORITY AND POETIC SUCCESSION

4. Sex and Salvation in the Vergilian Cento of the Fourth Century

5. Versifying Authoritative Prose: Poetical Paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyons by Venantius Fortunatus, Walafrid Strabo, and Sigebert of Gembloux

6. Jesus Christ and Dionysus: Rewriting Euripides in the Byzantine Cento Christus Patiens

PART III. POETIC AUTHORITY IN RIVALLING CULTURAL AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSES

7. Culture as Curse or Blessing? Prudentius and Avitus on the Origins of Culture

8. Christianity as Decadence or Progress in Pseudo-Hilary’s Paraphrastic Verse Summary of the History of Salvation

9. How Far Can Sainthood Go? St Martin of Tours in Two Hagiographical Epics of Late Antiquity

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