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Prudentius, Spain, and late antique Christianity : poetry, visual culture, and the cult of martyrs /

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Autore principale: Hershkowitz, Paula
Natura: Printed Book
Pubblicazione: London: Cambridge University Press 2017
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Sommario:
  • An introduction to Prudentius: A Spanish poet for the martyrs
  • Prudentius' audience: society and religious belief in late antique Hispania
  • The Peristephanon and the martyr cults in Roman Spain
  • Visual culture and martyrs: Prudentius, painter of pictures in words
  • Prudentius' poetry in the context of the late antique visual culture of Hispania - An epilogue for a Christian poet
  • Appendix: Myths in Prudentius' poems and Spanish mosaics."