Truthfulness, Realism, Historicity (A Study in Late Antique Spiritual Literature)

Author
Not available
Publisher
Routledge
Published
20241014
ISBN
9781032926308
ISBN registration area
English-language area (ISBN 978-1)

Description

The subject of this book is a wide range of spiritual narrative texts from the third to the sixth centuries A.D.: pagan philosophical biographies, Greek and Latin Christian saints' lives, and autobiographical works by authors such as Julian and Augustine. Unlike traditional readings which seek in these works historical facts, or religious and intel