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Writing 'True Stories': Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East

Writing 'True Stories': Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East

Debie, Muriel
Kennedy, Hugh
Papaconstantinou, Arietta

Hardcover

Series: Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Book 9

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryAncient History GeneralGeneral Asian History

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ISBN10: 2503527868
ISBN13: 9782503527864
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: Apr 1 2010
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.64
Language: French
The papers in this volume examine the interaction between history and hagiography in the late antique and medieval Middle East, exploring the various ways in which the two genres were used and combined to analyse, interpret, and re-create the past. The contributors focus on the circulation of motifs between the two forms of writing and the modifications and adaptations of the initial story that such reuse entailed. Beyond this purely literary question, the retold stories are shown to have been at the centre of a number of cultural, political, and religious strategies, as they were appropriated by different groups, not least by the nascent Muslim community. Writing 'True Stories' also foregrounds the importance of some Christian hagiographical motifs in Muslim historiography, where they were creatively adapted and subverted to define early Islamic ideals of piety and charisma.

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