Sökning: "Hagiography"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade ordet Hagiography.
1. Hagiographical discourse in Medieval Arabic Christianity : A study of Anthony al Qurashi and Bulus ibn Raja as a discourse of parrhesia
Kandidat-uppsats, Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studierSammanfattning : Scholars have faced many challenges in the classification of the literary genre of the hagiographical texts. In addition to their various styles and structures, hagiographical texts tend to move beyond the classical rhetorical approach. LÄS MER
2. Romersk historia i Legenda Aurea : Hur det romerska imperiet under Decius, Diocletianus och Maximianus kan förstås genom 1200-talets ögon.
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)Sammanfattning : This essay takes its starting point in Legenda Aurea, a hagiographical compendium written in the thirteenth century by an Italian catholic friar, Jacobus de Voragine. The essay aims to find out how the Roman history in the third century is shown in Legenda Aurea, a Christian book written about a thousand years later. LÄS MER
3. Den Gyllene Legenden om Britannien : En italiensk munks syn på brittisk och irländsk historia
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)Sammanfattning : This essay is about the works of Jacobus de Voragine, a genoan munk during the thirteenth century namely Legenda Aurea, or The Golden Legend. This essay aims to compare his works to contemporary material as well as modern academic texts. LÄS MER
4. Stabat Virgo dolorosa
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Latin; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapSammanfattning : The genre of Swedish versified offices from the Middle Ages has been utterly unnoticed, despite the great value it bears to research in a number of fields. This is a critical text edition and a musicological edition of the anonymously written Swedish versified office "Stabat Virgo dolorosa", for the feast "Compassio Marie". LÄS MER
5. Helgon, familjen och världen. En hagiografisk studie av efterföljelse som världstransformerande kraft
Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionSammanfattning : This hagiographical study deals with Christian saints, in the broad sense of the word, who, in the pursuit of following Christ, have transgressed the will of their biological family. By employing the historical narrative and theory of the philosopher Charles Taylor and the sociological theory of David Martin the question is asked if these hagiographical cases should be seen as radical breaks with the social imaginaries of their respective times or whether they rather should be seen as in line with tendencies toward individualization and a more disembedded worldview. LÄS MER