Truthfulness, realism, historicity: a study in late antique spiritual literature
Auteur :
Turner, Peter
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780754669548
Date de publication :
19 juin 2012
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
498 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Were holy men historical figures or figments of the theological imagination? Did the biographies devoted to them reflect facts or only the ideological commitments of their authors? The author suggests a new approach to these problems through an examination of a range of spiritual narrative texts from the third to the sixth centuries AD.