Imprisoned martyrs on the move: reading holiness in Byzantine martyrdom accounts
This paper shows that the protagonists of Byzantine Passions are often depicted as attaining holiness while on the move: after their arrest by pagan soldiers, Christian martyrs are subjected to travels for legal reasons. Drawing on the anthropological concept of liminality (Arnold van Gennep, Victor...
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Language: | German |
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De Gruyter
2021
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Byzantinische Zeitschrift
Year: 2021, Volume: 114, Issue: 3, Pages: 1241-1261 |
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