{"product_id":"writing-and-holiness-9780812221473","title":"Writing and Holiness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A provocative, stimulating, and complex book, which will reward a close reading by advanced students of Greek hagiography.\" * \u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A delight to read. Erudite yet accessible. . . . A coherent reading of the practice of hagiographical writing as an ascetic tradition which both celebrated the author as creator and placed him in the context of a scribe whose task was to record less his own view of holiness than heavenly insights.\" * \u003ci\u003eMystics Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Derek Krueger's monograph provides detailed insight into an important part of Byzantine cultural history. His study fills a gap in the field of examinations of selfhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, a field that previously focussed mainly on western Christianity and monastic contexts. ... Liturgical Subjects will be a welcome resource for both scholars already familiar with this period, and graduate students in the fields of Byzantine or Religious studies.\" * \u003ci\u003eKULT\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Literary Composition as a Religious Activity\u003cbr\u003e 2. Typology and Hagiography: Theodoret of Syrrhus's Religious History\u003cbr\u003e 3. Biblical Authors: The Evangelists as Saints\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hagiography as Devotion: Writing in the Cult of the Saints\u003cbr\u003e 5. Hagiography as Asceticism: Humility as Authorial Practice\u003cbr\u003e 6. Hagiography as Liturgy: Writing and Memory in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina\u003cbr\u003e 7. Textual Bodies: Plotinus, Syncletica, and the Teaching of Addai\u003cbr\u003e 8. Textuality and Redemption: The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist\u003cbr\u003e 9. Hagiographical Practice and the Formation of Identity: Genre and Discipline\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405698769239,"sku":"9780812221473","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-and-holiness-9780812221473","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}