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100 1 Pollmann, Karla.
245 14 The baptized muse :|bearly Christian poetry as cultural
authority /|cKarla Pollmann.
250 First edition.
260 Oxford :|bOxford University Press,|c2017.
264 4 |c©2017
300 1 online resource (vii, 269 pages)
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
500 Translated from the German.
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-257) and
index.
505 00 |tIntroduction: How to Approach Early Christian Poetry;
State of research; Approaches and perspetives of the
chapters; Outlook; --|tPart I: The Poetics of Authority in
Early Christian Poetry; --|t1: Tradition and Innovation:
The Transformation of Classical Literary Genres in
Christian Late Antiquity; --|tWhy Do We Need Literary
Genres at All?; --|tClassification of Literary Genres; --
|tWhich Came First-The Hen or the Egg?; --|tEarly
Christianity and Culture; --|tEarly Christianity and
Literature.-- Theoretical Justifications for Christians
Using Pagan Literature and Learning and Producing
Literature Themselves --|tThe Fight for Cultural Hegemony:
Typology of Five Formal Possibilities for Dealing with
Surrounding Cultural `Productś; --|tTypology of Five
Possibilities; --|tSeamless Continuation; --|t(Partial)
Erasure, Iconoclasm, damnatio memoriae; --|tAbrupt
Juxtaposition; --|tChresis orthe or usus iustus;
Innovations: Beyond the Past; --|tConclusions; --|t2: --
|tThe Test Case of Epic Poetry in Late Antiquity; --
|tIntroduction; Five Types of Epic; --|tMythological Epic:
Dracontius, Medea|r(Romulea 10), (Pagan) --|tPanegyric
Epic: Claudian, De Bello Gildonico --|tAllegorical Epic:
Prudentius, Psychomachy; --|tBiblical Epic: Avitus, De
Spiritalis Historiae Gestis; --|tHagiographical Epic:
Venantius Fortunatus, Vita S. Martini; --|tConclusions; --
|t3: Reappropriation and Disavowal: Pagan and Christian
Authorities in Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus; --
|tPreliminary Remarks; --|tReappropriation: Cassiodorus; -
-|tChristianizing Pagan Erudition; Cassiodorus --|tCanon
of Authorities; The Authority of the Bible; The Authority
of Orthodox Ecclesiastical Writers; The Authority of the
Pagan Liberal Arts; --|tDisavowal: Venantius Fortunatus --
|t.Venantius and the Authority of Genre --|tPagan and
Christian Role Models in Venantius Poetry and Prose; The
Poet as Mediator of Tradition; Conclusion; --|tPart II:
Christian Authority and Poetic Succession; --|t4: Sex and
Salvation in the Vergilian Cento of the Fourth Century; --
|tTheory; --|tSex: Ausonius, Cento nuptialis; --
|tSalvation: Proba, Cento; --|tConclusion; --|tAppendix; -
-|r(1) --|tJuvencus, Evangeliorum Libri 3.97-109; 124-6; -
-|t(2) Proba, Cento 531-61; --|t5: Versifying
Authoritative Prose: Poetical Paraphrases of Eucherius of
Lyon by Venantius Fortunatus, Walafrid Strabo, and
Sigebert of Gembloux; --|tIntroduction.-- General
Comparison --|tIndividual Aspects; --|tVenantius
Fortunatus; --|tWalafrid Strabo; --|tSigebert of Gembloux;
--|tConclusions; --|tAppendix; --|g1.|tVenantius
Fortunatus, carm. 2.14; --|g2.|tWalafrid Strabo, carm. 21;
3. --|tSigebert von Gembloux, Passio Sanctorum Thebeorum
2.651-789; --|t6: Jesus Christ and Dionysus: Rewriting
Euripides in the Byzantine Cento Christus Patiens; --
|tPart III: Poetic Authority in Rivalling Cultural and
Theological Discourses; --|t7: Culture as Curse or
Blessing? Prudentius and Avitus on the Origins of Culture;
--|tPreliminary Remarks; --|tPrudentius, Against
Symmachus; --|tAvitus, De spiritalis historiae gestis. --
|tConclusion.
520 A collection of Pollmann's previously-published essays on
early Christian poetry, most newly-translated from German
and all updated and corrected. It is a genre that has
tended to be overlooked by both Classicists and Patristics
scholars and this collection will rectify that. "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"--|cProvided by publisher.
546 Includes Latin text.
588 0 Derived from Print version record.
590 Oxford University Press|bOxford University Press Open
Access Books
650 0 Christian poetry.
650 0 Christian poetry, Latin|xHistory and criticism.
650 7 Christian Churches and denominations.|2bicssc
650 7 Christianity.|2bicssc
650 7 Classical texts New.|2bicssc
650 7 Humanities.|2bicssc
650 7 Literature and literary studies.|2bicssc
650 7 Religion and beliefs.|2bicssc
650 7 The Early Church.|2bicssc
650 7 POETRY|xAncient, Classical & Medieval.|2bisacsh
650 7 Christian poetry.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00859372
650 7 Christian poetry, Latin.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00859448
655 4 Electronic books.
655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 08 |iPrint version:|aPollmann, Karla.|tBaptized Muse : Early
Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority.|dOxford : OUP
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