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Re-imagining Roman persecution in the Visigothic passions
- Abstract:
- Despite the intervening centuries, the Iberian martyr passions show how important the later Roman world—especially its sites of judicial torture and spectacular punishment—was to the Visigothic Christian imaginary. For most Christians, the dominant notion of sanctity remained the urban martyr, who, more than the bloodless ‘confessor’, was commemorated in the liturgy, who attracted large-scale civic devotion, and whose cult sites underlay the spiritual topography of the kingdom’s cities. I argue that the passions attempted to reinterpret the Roman city—to make its ancient physical vestiges legible within a Christian framework which served ideals of civic Christianity in the present. The Visigothic civic imaginary, therefore, was intimately tied into the memory of the Roman city.
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- https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544653.010
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- Publisher:
- Amsterdam University Press
- Host title:
- Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: beyond imitatio imperii
- Pages:
- 223-251
- Chapter number:
- 9
- Series:
- Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
- Place of publication:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Publication date:
- 2023-10-01
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- EISBN:
- 9789048544653
- ISBN:
- 9789463726412
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2356604
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- Deposit date:
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2026-05-01
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- Copyright holder:
- David Addison
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © 2023 All authors/Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the book. The final version is available online from Amsterdam University Press at https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544653.010
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