RT Article
T1 L’origine et les ingrédients du discours hagiographique
JF Sacris erudiri
VO 50
SP 35
OP 70
A1 Van Uytfanghe, Marc
LA French
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817449397
AB Since the Early Imperial period and especially in Late Antiquity, Greek and Latin literature, both pagan and (Judeo-)Christian, produced a number of texts (spiritual biographies, but also other genres) that contain a hagiographical discourse. If one looks for any of the ingredients of this type of discourse exclusively (characters in a specific relation to God or the divine, multiple historical and literary stylization, performative function, virtutes – in the sense of both virtues and miracles – as archetypes), then one can go far back into Classical and Biblical Antiquity. The combination of the ingredients, however, based on what we have and know now, has not really been found before our era. The Life of Mozes by Philo of Alexandria seems to be the first specimen of such a complete hagiographical discourse.
DO 10.1484/J.SE.1.102623