An edition of Poetics of wonder (2011)

Poetics of wonder

testimonies of the new Christian miracles in the Late Antique Latin world

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Poetics of wonder
Giselle de Nie, Giselle de Nie
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An edition of Poetics of wonder (2011)

Poetics of wonder

testimonies of the new Christian miracles in the Late Antique Latin world

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The unexpected return of contemporary public Christian miracles in the late antique Latin west, after a centuries-long assumption that these had ceased after apostolic times, helped to create a religious mentality there that would continue to characterize the western European Middle Ages. While the social and political functions of the new miracles have been gaining greater scholarly attention, this study is the first in-depth treatment of their experiential dimension. It examines this dimension in the first reactions to the new phenomenon - enthusiasm, puzzlement, deep suspicion, and outright rejection - as they are reflected and, especially, imagined in the earliest contemporary narrative and poetic sources that describe them.

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Brepols
Language
English
Pages
528

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Subjects

Miracles, Religious life and customs, Provinces, Miracles in literature, Religious Psychology, Sources, Church history, Roman provinces, Latin poetry, medieval and modern, history and criticism

Places

Rome

Times

5th century, 4th century
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Table of Contents

Prologue. Discovering and Imaging the New Experience
Introduction. Modern Views and the Early Christian Tradition about Miracles
'The Miracles of Ancient Times Are Renewed': Enthusiasm, Doubt, and Resistance Around the Year 400
'Empty Superstitions'? Sulpicius Severus's Defence of a Living Saint's Deeds of Power
'Conceive Divine Apprehensions': Paulinus of Nola's Envisioning of a Dead Saint's Miracles
'Healing the Eyes of the Heart': Augustine's Views on Miracles up to c. 424
'A New Face': Discovering/Dreaming a Saint in Early Fifth-Century North Africa
'Instead of a Document, a Face': Augustine on the Martyrs' New Miracles
'Let All Perceive What Mysteries Miracles May Teach our Souls': The Miracle Story as Sacrament in Sedulius's Paschal Song
'You Will See Him Present Through his Power': Refiguring Saint Martin's Miracles in Troubled Fifth-Century Gaul.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-516) and indexes.

British Library not licensed to copy 0.

Published in
Turnhout
Series
Studies in the early Middle Ages -- v. 31, Studies in the early Middle Ages -- v. 31.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
231.730937
Library of Congress
BT97.3 .N538 2011, BT97.2

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Pagination
528 pages
Number of pages
528

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OL28390199M
ISBN 10
2503531482
ISBN 13
9782503531489
OCLC/WorldCat
819077345

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OL20956023W

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