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Author(s): Karla Pollmann

ISBN(s): 9780198726487, 0198726481

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Year: 2017

Language: English

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Author: Karla Pollmann

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. With the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire increasing numbers of educated people converted to this new belief. As Christianity did not have its own educational institutions the issue of how to harmonize pagan education and Christian convictions became increasingly pressing. Especially classical poetry, the staple diet of pagan education, was considered to be morally corrupting (due to its deceitful mythological content) and damaging for the salvation of the soul (because of the false gods it advocated). But Christianity recoiled from an unqualified anti-intellectual attitude, while at the same time the experiment of creating an idiosyncratic form of genuinely Christian poetry failed (the sole exception being the poet Commodianus). In The Baptized Muse: Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority, Karla Pollmann argues that, instead, Christian poets made creative use of the classical literary tradition, and–in addition to blending it with Judaeo-Christian biblical exegesis–exploited poetry’s special ability of enhancing communicative effectiveness and impact through aesthetic means. Pollman explores these strategies through a close analysis of a wide range of Christian, and for comparison partly also pagan, writers mainly from the fourth to sixth centuries. She reveals that early Christianity was not a hermetically sealed uniform body, but displays a rich spectrum of possibilities in dealing with the past and a willingness to engage with and adapt the surrounding culture(s), thereby developing diverse and changing responses to historical challenges. By demonstrating throughout that authority is a key in understanding the long denigrated and misunderstood early Christian poets, this book reaches the ground-breaking conclusion that early Christian poetry is an art form that gains its justification by adding cultural authority to Christianity. Thus, in a wider sense it engages with the recently developed interdisciplinary scholarly interest in aspects of religion as cultural phenomena.

The Baptized Muse Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I. The Poetics of Authority in Early Christian Poetry

1. Tradition and Innovation: The Transformation of Classical Literary Genres in Christian Late Antiquity

Why Do We Need Literary Genres at All?

Classification of Literary Genres

Which Came First—The Hen or the Egg?

Early Christianity and Culture

Early Christianity and Literature

Theoretical Justifications for Christians Using Pagan Literature and Learning and Producing Literature Themselves

The Fight for Cultural Hegemony: Typology of Five Formal Possibilities for Dealing with Surrounding Cultural ‘Products’

Typology of Five Possibilities

Conclusions

2. The Test Case of Epic Poetry in Late Antiquity

Introduction

Five Types of Epic

Conclusions

3. Reappropriation and Disavowal: Pagan and Christian Authorities in Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus

Preliminary Remarks

Reappropriation: Cassiodorus

Disavowal: Venantius Fortunatus

Conclusion

Part II. Christian Authority and Poetic Succession

4. Sex and Salvation in the Vergilian Cento of the Fourth Century

Theory

Sex: Ausonius, Cento nuptialis

Salvation: Proba, Cento

Conclusion

(1) Juvencus, Evangeliorum Libri 3.97–109; 124–6

(2) Proba, Cento 531–61

5. Versifying Authoritative Prose: Poetical Paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyon by Venantius Fortunatus, Walafrid Strabo, and Sigebert of Gembloux

Introduction

General Comparison

Individual Aspects

Conclusions

1. Venantius Fortunatus, carm. 2.14

2. Walafrid Strabo, carm. 21

3. Sigebert von Gembloux, Passio Sanctorum Thebeorum 2.651–789

6. Jesus Christ and Dionysus: Rewriting Euripides in the Byzantine Cento Christus Patiens

Part III. Poetic Authority in Rivalling Cultural and Theological Discourses

7. Culture as Curse or Blessing? Prudentius and Avitus on the Origins of Culture

Preliminary Remarks

Prudentius, Against Symmachus

Avitus, De spiritalis historiae gestis

Conclusion

8. Christianity as Decadence or Progress in Pseudo-Hilary’s Paraphrastic Verse Summary of the History of Salvation

Preliminary Remarks

Analysis

Conclusion

9. How Far Can Sainthood Go? St Martin of Tours in Two Hagiographical Epics of Late Antiquity

Preliminary Remarks

The Different Conceptions of Holiness

The Underlying Philosophical and Theological World-views

Cutting the Cloak

Paul.Petric. Mart. 1.61–139

Ven.Fort. Mart. 1.50–67

The Healing of a Haemorrhaging Woman

Paul.Petric. Mart. 5.608–15

Ven.Fort. Mart. 4.251–71

Extra-biblical Miracles: Expulsion of a Snake

Paul.Petric. Mart. 5.616–36

Ven.Fort. Mart. 4.272–83

Conclusion: Authority as a Key to Understanding Early Christian Poetry

Preliminary Remarks

Sources of Poetic Inspiration and Authorization before Christianity

Possibilities of Authorization in Christian Poetry

Conclusions

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

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