Code
3G063310
Duration
01 January 2010 → 31 December 2015
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Literary studies
- Theology and religious studies
Keywords
martyrs
novel
rhetoric
hagiography
Late Antiquity
Early Christianity
Greek literature
Late antiquity
Latin literature
Narratology
Literary studies
Project description
Literary-technical research into Christian Greek and Latin fictional texts (fourth to sixth centuries AD) Acta Martyrum and Passiones from Late Antiquity: generic specificity compared with the ancient novel, formal analysis of narrative techniques, construction of novelistic topoi and characterization-techniques; structuralist narratology and ancient rhetoric shed new light on the tradition of veneration of the martyrs.