Abstract:In Ep. 29, Augustine describes four sermons he delivered in May 395. A vivid account of the delivery and reception of late antique preaching, the letter shows how Augustine's listeners debated his message, and how Augustine shaped his preaching to win them over. This article situates the events in the social and archeological setting at Hippo, arguing that the laity were not as indifferent or opposed to clerical teaching as has often been supposed. For Augustine, a devout subset of laypeople were important interlocutors: meeting with him, bringing others to church, and becoming convinced, even when they had been most resistant. Similar patterns can be traced, less vividly, in many of Augustine's sermons, and, near the end of his life, the experiences of ordinary Christians helped to reshape Augustine's own theology and preaching on the martyrs.
{"title":"A Late Antique Preacher in Action: Augustine, Ep. 29","authors":"Mattias Gassman","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Ep. 29, Augustine describes four sermons he delivered in May 395. A vivid account of the delivery and reception of late antique preaching, the letter shows how Augustine's listeners debated his message, and how Augustine shaped his preaching to win them over. This article situates the events in the social and archeological setting at Hippo, arguing that the laity were not as indifferent or opposed to clerical teaching as has often been supposed. For Augustine, a devout subset of laypeople were important interlocutors: meeting with him, bringing others to church, and becoming convinced, even when they had been most resistant. Similar patterns can be traced, less vividly, in many of Augustine's sermons, and, near the end of his life, the experiences of ordinary Christians helped to reshape Augustine's own theology and preaching on the martyrs.","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"130 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48734435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas narrates the stories of four men and two women. Late ancient homilies regularly address the relative unimportance of the male martyrs in the church's celebrations of the Carthaginian martyrs. For the late ancient church, the Passion was primarily the story of Perpetua's and Felicitas's heroic witness to their faith. Modern scholarship has further restricted the characters of interest by focusing attention on only one of the Christians: Perpetua. Relegating Felicitas to the margins of the narrative is a wholly modern phenomenon. This article traces Felicitas's importance in the late ancient church and examines some of the reasons why scholars have undervalued her role in this martyr text.
{"title":"The Other Woman: Felicitas in Late Antiquity","authors":"L. Cobb","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas narrates the stories of four men and two women. Late ancient homilies regularly address the relative unimportance of the male martyrs in the church's celebrations of the Carthaginian martyrs. For the late ancient church, the Passion was primarily the story of Perpetua's and Felicitas's heroic witness to their faith. Modern scholarship has further restricted the characters of interest by focusing attention on only one of the Christians: Perpetua. Relegating Felicitas to the margins of the narrative is a wholly modern phenomenon. This article traces Felicitas's importance in the late ancient church and examines some of the reasons why scholars have undervalued her role in this martyr text.","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"1 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48292454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE. A Study of the Underworld Topos in Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae by Gabriela Ryser (review)","authors":"Alison John","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"308 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44862215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Once a part of Byzantine Egypt, the oases of Egypt's Western Desert acquired the status of an independent kingdom in the early Islamic period and retained this status at least until the advent of the Fatimid dynasty. As I argue in this article, a nuanced interpretation of a limited dossier of Greco-Latin and Arabic texts (consisting mostly of literary sources) yields insight into the mechanisms behind the political and administrative changes that the Egyptian oases underwent after the collapse of Byzantine rule following the Arab conquest of Egypt.
{"title":"The Oases of Egypt's Western Desert from Byzantine to Islamic Rule: Problems and New Perspectives","authors":"Nicoletta De Troia","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Once a part of Byzantine Egypt, the oases of Egypt's Western Desert acquired the status of an independent kingdom in the early Islamic period and retained this status at least until the advent of the Fatimid dynasty. As I argue in this article, a nuanced interpretation of a limited dossier of Greco-Latin and Arabic texts (consisting mostly of literary sources) yields insight into the mechanisms behind the political and administrative changes that the Egyptian oases underwent after the collapse of Byzantine rule following the Arab conquest of Egypt.","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"277 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43003498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Paulinus of Nola's Natalicia represent a poetic cycle unparalleled in Latin literature: thirteen complete poems (and a fourteenth fragmentary one) composed every year for the annual festival of Saint Felix of Nola. This article considers the poems as a group, analyzing the sources of Paulinus's poetic invention and identifying significant features that run through the corpus. In particular, the concept of varietas serves as an aesthetic principle at various levels of integration and in various situations, while Paulinus's role as impresario of the cult of Saint Felix and master of ceremonies at the saint's festival finds expression in the metatextual directions he introduces into the text, the guided tour he gives to the shrine through the person of Nicetas of Remesiana in poem 27, and the mental peregrination he invites his reader/listener to take. Ultimately in Late Antiquity verse hagiography was to take a different course, but Paulinus's achievement remains substantial, and his poems illuminate an important stage in the history of the cult of the saints.
摘要：诺拉的《纳塔利西亚》代表了拉丁文学中无与伦比的诗歌循环：每年为诺拉的圣费利克斯节创作的十三首完整的诗歌（和第十四首零碎的诗歌）。本文将这些诗歌视为一个群体，分析了波利努斯诗歌发明的来源，并确定了贯穿语料库的重要特征。特别是，品种的概念在不同的整合层面和不同的情况下都是一种美学原则，而保利尼斯作为圣费利克斯崇拜的管理者和圣人节日的司仪的角色在他引入文本的元文本方向上得到了表达，他在诗27中通过雷梅西亚纳的尼切塔斯（Nicetas of Remesiana）的人向神殿进行导游，以及他邀请读者/听众进行的心理漫游。最终，在古代晚期的诗歌《圣徒传》走上了一条不同的道路，但保利尼斯的成就仍然很大，他的诗歌照亮了圣徒崇拜历史上的一个重要阶段。
{"title":"Narrating the Saints: Paulinus of Nola and the Beginning of Verse Hagiography","authors":"Michael Roberts","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Paulinus of Nola's Natalicia represent a poetic cycle unparalleled in Latin literature: thirteen complete poems (and a fourteenth fragmentary one) composed every year for the annual festival of Saint Felix of Nola. This article considers the poems as a group, analyzing the sources of Paulinus's poetic invention and identifying significant features that run through the corpus. In particular, the concept of varietas serves as an aesthetic principle at various levels of integration and in various situations, while Paulinus's role as impresario of the cult of Saint Felix and master of ceremonies at the saint's festival finds expression in the metatextual directions he introduces into the text, the guided tour he gives to the shrine through the person of Nicetas of Remesiana in poem 27, and the mental peregrination he invites his reader/listener to take. Ultimately in Late Antiquity verse hagiography was to take a different course, but Paulinus's achievement remains substantial, and his poems illuminate an important stage in the history of the cult of the saints.","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"88 1-2","pages":"111 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41297526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis by Rosamond McKitterick (review)","authors":"S. Bruce","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"318 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43213784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining the Divine: Exploring Art in Religions of Late Antiquity across Eurasia ed. by Jaś Elsner and Rachel Wood (review)","authors":"Benjamin J. K. Anderson","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"310 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43348538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article assesses the archaeological evidence of a large hall that was part of a fourth-century church complex discovered at 'Ain el-Gedida, in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt's Western Desert. The focus is on the spatial and functional relationship of the hall with the church and the rest of the complex. The room was broadly identified as a gathering hall because of the existence of mudbrick mastabas (benches) running along three of its walls. It was also connected to the church via two passageways, one of which was sealed—at some point in antiquity—with a mudbrick wall that obscured the remains of a stepped podium between the two spaces. The location of the platform suggests that it was once used by someone—possibly a priest—who needed to be seen and heard by people assembled in both the church and the gathering hall. People sitting (or standing) in the latter would have had only limited visual access onto the church, with the area of the sanctuary being concealed to them. The goal of this essay is to shed light on who might have congregated in the hall at 'Ain el-Gedida, before and after its alterations, and—more broadly—on the social composition of the community that inhabited this rural site of Egypt's Western Desert in Late Antiquity.
摘要：本文评估了在埃及西部沙漠达赫拉绿洲的Ain el Gedida发现的一座四世纪教堂建筑群的一部分大厅的考古证据。重点是大厅与教堂以及建筑群其他部分的空间和功能关系。这个房间被广泛认为是一个聚会大厅，因为它的三面墙上有泥砖砌的长椅。它还通过两条通道与教堂相连，其中一条通道在古代的某个时候被一堵泥砖墙封住，挡住了两个空间之间阶梯式讲台的遗迹。平台的位置表明，它曾经被一个人——可能是一名牧师——使用过，他需要被聚集在教堂和礼堂的人看到和听到。坐（或站）在后者中的人只能有限地看到教堂，避难所的区域对他们来说是隐蔽的。这篇文章的目的是揭示谁可能在Ain el Gedida的大厅改建前后聚集在大厅里，更广泛地说，揭示古埃及西部沙漠这一乡村遗址的社会组成。
{"title":"Catechumens, Women, and Agricultural Laborers: Who Used the Fourth-century Hall at the Church of 'Ain el-Gedida, Egypt?","authors":"Nicola Aravecchia","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article assesses the archaeological evidence of a large hall that was part of a fourth-century church complex discovered at 'Ain el-Gedida, in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt's Western Desert. The focus is on the spatial and functional relationship of the hall with the church and the rest of the complex. The room was broadly identified as a gathering hall because of the existence of mudbrick mastabas (benches) running along three of its walls. It was also connected to the church via two passageways, one of which was sealed—at some point in antiquity—with a mudbrick wall that obscured the remains of a stepped podium between the two spaces. The location of the platform suggests that it was once used by someone—possibly a priest—who needed to be seen and heard by people assembled in both the church and the gathering hall. People sitting (or standing) in the latter would have had only limited visual access onto the church, with the area of the sanctuary being concealed to them. The goal of this essay is to shed light on who might have congregated in the hall at 'Ain el-Gedida, before and after its alterations, and—more broadly—on the social composition of the community that inhabited this rural site of Egypt's Western Desert in Late Antiquity.","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"193 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44053619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Companion to Byzantine Science ed. by Stavros Lazaris (review)","authors":"Giulia Freni","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"320 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46162311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:When in the year 511 Theoderic removed Gesalic from the Visigothic throne, he could not have known that his most feared western antagonist, his father-in-law Clovis, would pass away soon afterwards. Theoderic was able to attain an international peace and a general harmony in the western Mediterranean world. This situation was the result of military victories combined with an almost twenty-year policy of matrimonial alliances. The general peace lasted for a decade which ancient authors identified as the peak of Theoderic's long reign. This was also the decade when Theoderic tried to unify Ostrogoths and Visigoths under his kingdom in the largest political experiment of the barbarian West of that time. A few elements of this propaganda survive in sections of the Getica of Jordanes, in the Anonymus Valesianus II, and in some of the Variae. Interestingly, all these vestiges go back to Cassiodorus. In his Gothic History, by abusing traditions and genealogies, revisiting history, and adapting chronologies, he represented Theoderic's aim of unification as a reunification of two peoples who shared the same origins but had been split for more than two centuries. While Cassiodorus's History is lost, we have enough elements to hypothesize that this author wrote the eulogy of Theoderic before the king's dream came to an end. The aim of this paper is to unfold the elements of this largely lost propaganda.
{"title":"Cassiodorus, Theoderic, and the Dream of a Pan-Gothic Kingdom","authors":"M. Vitiello","doi":"10.1353/jla.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:When in the year 511 Theoderic removed Gesalic from the Visigothic throne, he could not have known that his most feared western antagonist, his father-in-law Clovis, would pass away soon afterwards. Theoderic was able to attain an international peace and a general harmony in the western Mediterranean world. This situation was the result of military victories combined with an almost twenty-year policy of matrimonial alliances. The general peace lasted for a decade which ancient authors identified as the peak of Theoderic's long reign. This was also the decade when Theoderic tried to unify Ostrogoths and Visigoths under his kingdom in the largest political experiment of the barbarian West of that time. A few elements of this propaganda survive in sections of the Getica of Jordanes, in the Anonymus Valesianus II, and in some of the Variae. Interestingly, all these vestiges go back to Cassiodorus. In his Gothic History, by abusing traditions and genealogies, revisiting history, and adapting chronologies, he represented Theoderic's aim of unification as a reunification of two peoples who shared the same origins but had been split for more than two centuries. While Cassiodorus's History is lost, we have enough elements to hypothesize that this author wrote the eulogy of Theoderic before the king's dream came to an end. The aim of this paper is to unfold the elements of this largely lost propaganda.","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"15 1","pages":"160 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47722079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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