Julie Van Pelt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1483778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Van Pelt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Pelt |
| SIGNATURE | VAN PELT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent UniversityBelgium |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3193-3095 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Life of Makarios the Roman (BHG 1004–1005i) and the Alexander Romance
Paradoxography and narratives of wondrous travels and adventure tread the borderline between truth and fiction. On the one hand, they lend importance to, for instance, eyewitness reports, while on the other, they portray distant, unknown and fantastic lands. This article discusses both aspects as they emerge in the Life of Makarios the Roman, a popular early Byzantine saint’s Life and ego-narration about the fantastical journey of three monks to …
Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography
This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore …
Constructing Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography
In the broadest terms, this book examines late antique and medieval hagio graphy -a modern umbrella term to which I return below -as narrative. 1 Historically speaking, this approach has only been established relatively recently in the field.For a long time after its emergence in the Counter Reformation, scholarship on hagiography was driven both by a distinct interest in questions of authorship and authenticity, and by a tendency to mine texts f…
The Life of Thaïs and The Life of Abraham and his Niece Mary
This article brings to light an intertextual connection between two hagiographical texts that has not been acknowledged in scholarship: the Life of Thaïs (bhg 1695) and the Greek Life of Abraham and his Niece Mary (bhg 5). The first part of the article presents an overview of the different possibilities of interdependence. Next, the textual correspondences and the contextual divergences between the two passages are discussed. In the final part, t…
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The Life of Thaïs and The Life of Abraham and his Niece Mary
This article brings to light an intertextual connection between two hagiographical texts that has not been acknowledged in scholarship: the Life of Thaïs (bhg 1695) and the Greek Life of Abraham and his Niece Mary (bhg 5). The first part of the article presents an overview of the different possibilities of interdependence. Next, the textual correspondences and the contextual divergences between the two passages are discussed. In the final part, t…
Constructing Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography
In the broadest terms, this book examines late antique and medieval hagio graphy -a modern umbrella term to which I return below -as narrative. 1 Historically speaking, this approach has only been established relatively recently in the field.For a long time after its emergence in the Counter Reformation, scholarship on hagiography was driven both by a distinct interest in questions of authorship and authenticity, and by a tendency to mine texts f…
Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography
This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore …
The Life of Makarios the Roman (BHG 1004–1005i) and the Alexander Romance
Paradoxography and narratives of wondrous travels and adventure tread the borderline between truth and fiction. On the one hand, they lend importance to, for instance, eyewitness reports, while on the other, they portray distant, unknown and fantastic lands. This article discusses both aspects as they emerge in the Life of Makarios the Roman, a popular early Byzantine saint’s Life and ego-narration about the fantastical journey of three monks to …
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