Palladius of Helenopolis: One Author, Two Ways to Write
The present article analyzes the narrative strategies and discursive conventions that Palladius of Hellenopolis employed in his works, the Dialogue and the Lausiac History, and proposes the reasons why one author could produce two such disparate works. I use the concepts and approaches offered by re...
| Published in: | Journal of early Christian studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2017]
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Journal of early Christian studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Palladius, Helenopolitanus 365-430, Dialogus de vita Joannis Chrysostomi
/ Palladius, Helenopolitanus 365-430, Historia Lausiaca
/ Wisdom (Motif)
/ Foolishness (Motif)
/ Pride (Motif)
/ Narrative technique
/ Target audience
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAA Church history KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KCD Hagiography; saints |
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| Summary: | The present article analyzes the narrative strategies and discursive conventions that Palladius of Hellenopolis employed in his works, the Dialogue and the Lausiac History, and proposes the reasons why one author could produce two such disparate works. I use the concepts and approaches offered by reader-response criticism in order to differentiate between an implied audience of the historical narrative as the narrative itself mediates it, and the historical audience, i.e., real people of flesh and blood who read the book in the past. The ways in which Palladius chose to present certain topics (the attitude to wisdom and foolishness, eschatological expectations, the appearance of righteous men, male and female ascetics living together, and the attitude to pride) are important indicators of how he envisioned the audiences of the Dialogue and the Lausiac History, and that, to a larger extent, accounts for the impression of the remarkable difference between the two works. An attempt is made to correlate these implied audiences with the diverse groups in Palladius's immediate milieu and to hypothesize about the real first-hand readers of his works, who were ready and willing to internalize his assumptions and expectations. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3184 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2017.0035 |