The Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria 189-232 CE

The Form and Function of Hagiography in Late Antique and Islamic Egypt

Maged Mikhail (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-18932-4 (ISBN)

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This is the first full-length study of Demetrius of Alexandria (189–232 ce), who generated a neglected, yet remarkable hagiographic program that secured him a positive legacy throughout the Middle Ages and the modern era. Drawing upon Patristic, Coptic, and Arabic sources spanning a millennium, the analysis contextualizes the Demetrian corpus at its various stages of composition and presents the totality of his hagiographic corpus in translation.

This volume constitutes a definitive study of Demetrius, but more broadly, it provides a clearly delineated hagiographic program and charts its evolution against a backdrop of political developments and intercommunal interactions. This fascinating study is a useful resource for students of Demetrius and the Church in Egypt in this period, but also for anyone working on Early Christianity and hagiography more generally.

Maged S. A. Mikhail is Professor of History at California State University at Fullerton, USA.

Preface

Abbreviations

Part I: The Genesis and Evolution of a Hagiographic Program

1. The Bishop and the Scholar

2. Sources

3. Early Imprints

4. Date and Socio-Literary Setting of the Sahidic Coptic Tradition

5. The Encomium on Demetrius as Hagiography

6. Hagiography across Language and Culture

7. Arabic Recensions, Amendments, and Omissions: Emergence of the Normative Hagiography

8. Lent and Epact in Alexandria

9. Form, Function, and Meaning

Part II: Texts – Demetrius’s Bio-Hagiographic Dossier

I. Earliest Evidence

II. An Encomium on Demetrius of Alexandria

III. Demetrius’s sirah in the History of the Patriarchs’ Primitive Recension

IV. Eutychius’s Nazm al-jawhar (The String of Pearls)

V. Kitab al-tawarīkh and the Chronicon orientale

VI. The Coptic-Arabic synaksar (Synaxarium)

VII. Abu al-Barakat’s Musbah al-zulma (A Lamp in the Darkness)

VIII. The Difnar (Antiphonarium)

IX. Doxologies and Praises

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-138-18932-4 / 1138189324
ISBN-13	978-1-138-18932-4 / 9781138189324
Zustand	Neuware