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Title

  • The era of the martyrs : remembering the great persecution in late antique Egypt

Other Title

  • Remembering the great persecution in late antique Egypt

Summary

  • One of the most traumatic experiences of Late Antique Christians was the Great Persecution, begun by Emperor Diocletian and his Tetrarchic colleagues in 303 CE. Here Aaltje Hidding unites research of traditional memory studies with work done by cognitive scientists to examine how they remembered the Persecution. The resulting methodological framework, the 'cognitive ecology', systemically studies all what can be covered by this term - social surroundings, cognitive artefacts and the physical environment - and bridges the gap between individual and collective memory. The author analyses the remembrance of the Persecution in three different regions along the Nile river. In Oxyrhynchus, the thousands of papyrus fragments found at the city's rubbish dump give a vivid image of the martyrs in the daily lives of the Oxyrhynchites. In Antinoopolis, known for the cult of the physician saint Colluthus, she zooms in on the rituals and practices at a martyr's sanctuary. Finally, in Dandara, the rich hagiographical dossier of the anchorite Paphnutius shows how old memories of the Persecution became mixed with new monastic experiences. The Bohairic and Greek Passion of Paphnutius appear in their first complete English translations.

Names

  • Hidding, Aaltje, author

Created / Published

  • Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
  • ©2020

Headings

  • -  30-600
  • -  Christian martyrs--Egypt
  • -  Martyrdom--Christianity--History
  • -  Persecution--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
  • -  Christian martyrs
  • -  Martyrdom--Christianity
  • -  Persecution--Early church
  • -  Egypt

Genre

  • History

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-212) and indexes.
  • -  Text mainly in English. Passion of Paphuntius in Greek and Bohairic with translation on facing pages.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (x, 224 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BR1604.23

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021758425

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Chicago citation style:

Hidding, Aaltje, Author. The era of the martyrs: remembering the great persecution in late antique Egypt. [Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter, ©, 2020] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021758425/.

APA citation style:

Hidding, A. (2020) The era of the martyrs: remembering the great persecution in late antique Egypt. [Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021758425/.

MLA citation style:

Hidding, Aaltje, Author. The era of the martyrs: remembering the great persecution in late antique Egypt. [Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter, ©, 2020] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021758425/>.