Project

: Sacred Fiction. A narratological-rhetorical analysis of novelistic topicality and generic specificity in late antique hagiography.

Code

3G063310

Duration

01 January 2010 → 31 December 2015

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Danny Praet

Research disciplines

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.