medieval worlds • no. 8 • 2018 Transcultural Contacts and Literary Exchanges
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medieval worlds • no. 8 • 2018 Transcultural Contacts and Literary Exchanges
ISSN 2412-3196 Online Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8441-6 Online Edition
James T. Palmer
S. 22 - 41 doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no8_2018s22 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no8_2018s22
Abstract: Sanctity and the holy have been useful concepts for scholars seeking to compare religious cultures. This paper seeks to extend the project of comparisons by investigating the organisational contexts that produced collected biographies about holy women and men. It focuses on case studies from Latin and Byzantine Christianity and Buddhist China in the sixth century CE to highlight useful similarities in the authors’ conceptions of their work in the face of fluid traditions and contested religious environments. It also sketches some of the ways in which manuscript production and library organisation helped to generate the texts we have. Without consideration of these organisational factors, it is argued, the traditional project of comparing holy figures is on uncertain ground. Keywords: collected biographies, hagiography, manuscripts, libraries, Gregory of Tours, Gregory the Great, John of Ephesus, Cyril of Scythopolis, Baochang, Huijiao, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Christianity Published Online: 2018/11/30 08:54:29 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5572 0x003a16e0 Rights: .
medieval worlds provides a forum for comparative, interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional limits and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help developing global perspectives. We focus on the period from c. 400 to 1500 CE but do not stick to rigid periodization.
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Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
A-1011 Wien, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
Tel. +43-1-515 81/DW 3420, Fax +43-1-515 81/DW 3400 https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at, e-mail: verlag@oeaw.ac.at |