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Prudentius, Spain, and late antique Christianity : poetry, visual culture, and the cult of martyrs

Title
Prudentius, Spain, and late antique Christianity : poetry, visual culture, and the cult of martyrs / Paula Hershkowitz.
Author
Hershkowitz, Paula, 1944-
Publication
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Description
xii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
Subject
  • Prudentius, 348- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Prudentius, 348-
  • To 1800
  • Martyrs in literature
  • Christian poetry, Latin > History and criticism
  • Christian poetry, Latin
  • Social conditions
  • Spain > History > To 711
  • Spain > Social conditions > To 1800
  • Spain
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-246) and index.
Contents
An introduction to Prudentius: A Spanish poet for the martyrs -- Prudentius' audience: society and religious belief in late antique Hispania -- The Peristephanon and the martyr cults in Roman Spain -- Visual culture and martyrs: Prudentius, painter of pictures in words -- Prudentius' poetry in the context of the late antique visual culture of Hispania -- An epilogue for a Christian poet -- Appendix: Myths in Prudentius' poems and Spanish mosaics."
Call Number
JFF 17-1182
ISBN
  • 9781107149601
  • 1107149606
LCCN
  • 2016045342
  • 40027090529
OCLC
971020360
Author
Hershkowitz, Paula, 1944- author.
Title
Prudentius, Spain, and late antique Christianity : poetry, visual culture, and the cult of martyrs / Paula Hershkowitz.
Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-246) and index.
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Chronological Term
To 1800
Other Standard Identifier
40027090529
Research Call Number
JFF 17-1182
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