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Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Michael Roberts
Categories: Christian martyrs in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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A beautifully detailed literary study of Prudentius's eulogies of the Christian martyrs
Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Paula Hershkowitz
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-05 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book sets Prudentius' martyr poetry within the religious, social, and visual contexts of late antique Spain. This original approach utilises the fields of
The Corporeal Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Patricia Cox Miller
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of
Damasus of Rome
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Dennis E. Trout
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Damasus of Rome makes available in English the epigraphic poetry of Damasus, bishop of Rome from 366 to 384. The translations are accompanied by the Latin text
Figuring the Feminine
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Jill Ross
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberia