Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2021

Desiring Martyrs

Locating Martyrs in Space and Time

Edited by: Harry O. Maier and Katharina Waldner

Volume 10 in the series SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110682632

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About this book

Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in different places and contexts. The title "Desiring Martyrs" is meant in two senses. First, it refers to protagonists and antagonists of the martyrdom narratives who as literary characters seek martyrs and the way they inscribe certain kinds of cultural and social desire. Second, it describes the later celebration of martyrs via narrative, martyrdom acts, monuments, inscriptions, martyria, liturgical commemoration, pilgrimage, etc. Here there is a cultural desire to tell or remember a particular kind of story about the past that serves particular communal interests and goals. By applying the spatial turn to these ancient texts the volume seeks to advance a still nascent social geographical understanding of emergent Christian and Jewish martyrdom. It explores how martyr narratives engage pre-existing time-space configurations to result in new appropriations of earlier traditions.

Author / Editor information

Harry O. Maier, Vancouver School of Theology; Katharina Waldner, Universität Erfurt.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Harry O. Maier and Katharina Waldner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Sacral Meals and Post-Traumatic Places: Revision and Coherence in the Epistle to the Hebrews Michael J. Thate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
“Who are these clothed in white robes and whence have they come?”: The Book of Revelation and the Spatiotemporal Creation of Trauma Harry O. Maier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Murder at the Temple: Space, Time and Concealment in the Proto-gospel of James Christopher A. Frilingos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Roman Judge vs. Christian Bishop: The Trial of Phileas During the Great Persecution Jan N. Bremmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Pure Bread of Christ: Imperial Necropolitics and the Eucharistic Martyrdom of Ignatius Eric C. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
From Prison to Palace: The Carcer as Heterotopia in North African Martyr Accounts L. Stephanie Cobb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Bones Ground by Wild Beast’s Teeth. Late Ancient Imaginations of the Death of Ignatius of Antioch Nicole Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
When the City Cries: The Spacetime of Persecution in Eusebius’ Martyrs of Palestine Katharina Waldner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Making Martyrs Mennonite Jennifer Otto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Index of Ancient Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Libraries, historical insitutes, academics.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 236

eBook

Published: December 16, 2020
ISBN: 9783110682632

Hardcover

Published: December 16, 2020
ISBN: 9783110682489