Prudentius’ Crown of Martyrs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prudentius’ Crown of Martyrs write by Len Krisak. This book was released on 2019-08-21. Prudentius’ Crown of Martyrs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prudentius’ Crown of Martyrs offers an English translation, with introduction and commentary, of the Liber Peristephanon, Prudentius’ vivid collection of lyric hymns in honor of Christian martyrs. To render Prudentius’ metrically varied lines for twenty-first-century readers, Len Krisak relies on the inherent iambic nature of English. The introduction offers insight into social, political, and literary features of the fourth century, the life of Prudentius, the poet’s other works, his Latinity and mastery of ancient meters, and the manuscript tradition and the reception of Prudentius in the Middle Ages and beyond. Given Prudentius’ central place in the history of Latin poetry, this translation is a welcome resource for general readers interested in Western literary history. It will also find a home with scholarly audiences working on Late Antique and Early Christian literature and culture, in a wide variety of college classrooms and in academic libraries.
Hymns for every day. The martyrs crowns. v. 2. The divinity of Christ. The origin of sin. The Spiritual combat. Against Symmachus, books 1 and 2. Scenes from sacred history, or Twofold nourishment. Epilogue. Indices
Hymns for every day. The martyrs crowns. v. 2. The divinity of Christ. The origin of sin. The Spiritual combat. Against Symmachus, books 1 and 2. Scenes from sacred history, or Twofold nourishment. Epilogue. Indices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hymns for every day. The martyrs crowns. v. 2. The divinity of Christ. The origin of sin. The Spiritual combat. Against Symmachus, books 1 and 2. Scenes from sacred history, or Twofold nourishment. Epilogue. Indices write by Prudentius. This book was released on 1962. Hymns for every day. The martyrs crowns. v. 2. The divinity of Christ. The origin of sin. The Spiritual combat. Against Symmachus, books 1 and 2. Scenes from sacred history, or Twofold nourishment. Epilogue. Indices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spirit of Early Christian Thought write by Robert Louis Wilken. This book was released on 2003-01-01. The Spirit of Early Christian Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well known thinkers, Robert Wilken (the author of The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity) chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. He provides an introduction to early Christian thought on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, and shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.
Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic
Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic write by Patricia Healy Wasyliw. This book was released on 2008. Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe is a comprehensive history of child saints and their cults from late Antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. The child martyrs of the persecutions, including the Holy Innocents, were the first child saints recognized by the Church and their cults spread throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages. Alongside these cults, medieval society also venerated child «martyrs», victims of political or domestic violence. The increasing role of the papacy in the canonization process after the tenth century resulted in the veneration of saintly child confessors in the high Middle Ages, but from the end of the twelfth century, most children worshipped as saints were the alleged victims of ritual murder by Jews. This book considers the formation and transformation of child saints and their cults in the context of popular belief and the history of childhood.
Prudentius’ Psychomachia
Prudentius’ Psychomachia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prudentius’ Psychomachia write by Marc Mastrangelo. This book was released on 2022-02-27. Prudentius’ Psychomachia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new translation brings to life Prudentius' Psychomachia, one of the most widely read poems in western Europe from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance. With accompanying notes and introduction, this volume provides a fresh exploration of its themes and influence. The Psychomachia of Prudentius (348–c. 405), an allegorical epic poem of nearly 1,000 lines about the battle between the virtues and the vices for possession of the human soul, led early modern scholars to refer to the late antique poet as "the Christian Vergil." Combining depictions of violent, single combats with allusions to pagan epic poetry, biblical scenes, and Christian doctrine, the poem captures the dynamism of the later Roman Empire in which the pagan world was giving way to a new, Christian Europe. In this volume, the introduction sets the historical and literary context and illuminates the Psychomachia’s prominent role in western literary history. Mastrangelo’s translation aims to capture the rhetorical power of the author’s Roman Christian Latin for the 21st-century reader. The notes provide the reader with in-depth information on Prudentius’ Latinity, the Roman epic tradition, and Christian doctrine. This volume is directed at students and scholars across the disciplines of comparative literature, classics, religion, and ancient and medieval studies, as well as any reader interested in the history and development of literature in the West.
