One fine study is Yvette Duval's Auprès des saints corps et âme:
l'inhumation <<ad sanctos>> dans la chétienté d'Orient et d'Occident du
IIIe au VIIIe siècle (Paris: Etudes Augustiniennes, 1988).
Megan
>Cross posted to ELENCHUS, EccHst, MEDTEXTL, Medieval-Religion.
>Any assistance in pursuing this topic will be greatly appreciated!
>
>Forwarded message:
>> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Shira Lander <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> I am wondering if, besides the work of Victor Saxer, any new synthetic
>> treatments of the cult of the martyr-saints in the second through
>> mid-fourth century North Africa have emerged since the work of Delehaye,
>> LeClerq, and that earlier generation of scholars. I am trying to
>> understand the emergence and growth of this religious activity,
>> particularly the relationship between ritual activity at burial sites,
>> evolution of shrines and ritualized visitation to them, the production of
>> martyrdom texts and their use in commemorations on the deaths'
>> anniversaries, and who was involved in each of these activities. Work
>> that considers archaeological and inscriptional evidence is preferred to
>> an exclusively literary approach.
>>
>> Shira Lander
>> UPENN Department of Religious Studies
>> [log in to unmask]
>
>Bob
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