Cinq Passions tardo-antiques d’Italie méridionale (Donat et ses frères, Éleuthère, Potitus, Guy, Érasme)
The Passions of the Twelve Brothers (BHL 2298), of Eleutherius, bishop of Aeca (BHL 2451), of Potitus martyr in Apulia (BHL 6908), of Guy, Modestus and Crescence (BHL 8712) and of Erasmus, bishop of Formia (BHL 2582), form a network of texts linked by close literary and narrative correspondences. Ho...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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Analecta Bollandiana
Year: 2021, Volume: 139, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-105 |
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| Summary: | The Passions of the Twelve Brothers (BHL 2298), of Eleutherius, bishop of Aeca (BHL 2451), of Potitus martyr in Apulia (BHL 6908), of Guy, Modestus and Crescence (BHL 8712) and of Erasmus, bishop of Formia (BHL 2582), form a network of texts linked by close literary and narrative correspondences. However, their dating and location are complex. For some of them (Eleutherius, Guy, Erasmus), the existence of a Greek file must also be taken into account. The priority of Latin can however be highlighted for the Passions of Guy and Erasmus. Moreover, the study of these five clumsy but influential accounts allows us to establish a relative chronology: the earliest (Donatus and his brothers, Eleutherius) can be dated to the 5th-6th century; they were followed by the Passions of Potitus (6th cent.), then Guy (2nd half of the 6th cent.), and finally Erasmus (late 6th cent.). All these writings were produced in the same regional area (Apulia, Lucania, Campania). This long underestimated local hagiographic effervescence was fed by the African, Oriental and Roman texts that circulated in this part of Italy but it came to an abrupt end at the end of the 6th century with the disappearance of a large number of local sanctuaries in Apulia. |
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| ISSN: | 2507-0290 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Analecta Bollandiana
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.ABOL.5.126690 |
