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

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Main Author: Hershkowitz, Paula, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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."