medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Was Sulpicius Severus at all influential in other-than-Latin
Christianity? If not, then his position as perhaps the most
influential for later Christianity _tout court_ is open to question.
For the romance-like saint's lives of Greek Christianity, whose
protagonists do repeatedly perform miracles (e.g., the 5th-to-7th-
century Acts of John by "Prochorus"), I rather suspect that the most
influential texts may have been some of the apocryphal Acts of the
Apostles, e.g. those of John (now incompletely preserved) and those of
Philip.
Best,
John Dillon
On Monday, June 5, 2006, at 12:09 pm, John McCulloh wrote:
> One of the most influential -- perhaps the most -- for later
> hagiographyis Sulpicius Severus' Life of Martin.
>
> John
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, John Wickstrom wrote:
>
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion
> and culture
> >
> > Dear MRs:
> >
> >
> >
> > I was reading over Athanasius' Life of Antony this morning, not
> for the
> > first time. But I did notice for the first time that miracles
> play an
> > extraordinarily small part in this life. I think there are only
> one or
> > two. So this hagiographcially "model life" is not a model for
> the later
> > saints' lives that are in part lists of miracles before and
> after death.
> > So my question is: is there a single saint's life that becomes a
> model> for setting forth the life as, in large part, a life
> dedicated to the
> > performance of miracles.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > jbw
> >
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