Karla Pollmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3481736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karla Pollmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karla |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollmann |
| SIGNATURE | POLLMANN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Engineering Arts (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4368-3687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Eschatology in Antiquity: Forms and Functions: Forms and Functions
This articles discusses the use of apocalyptic sources and an eschatological perspective in Jewish-Christian debates in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. It relies on the evidence of unpublished Armenian texts, both translated/adapted and original compositions in that language. It argues that this type of sources allow us to discern the transfer of ideas and topoi between various religions communities in Late Antique eastern Mediterranean soc…
Eschatology in Antiquity: Forms and Functions
Reappropriation and Disavowal: Pagan and Christian Authorities in Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus
Two rivalling traditions constituted the self-awareness of Christian intellectuals up to the sixth century: (1) the (originally pagan) tradition of education and knowledge as represented by the liberal arts; (2) a Christian tradition of prophetical truth as conveyed by the Scriptures which surpasses all human knowledge. This is illustrated by Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus, two representative figures of the sixth century, a time when classi…
Versifying Authoritative Prose: Poetical Paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyon by Venantius Fortunatus, Walafrid Strabo, and Sigebert of Gembloux
The fourth-century Eucherius narrates in his Passio Acaunensium Martyrum that during the persecution under Diocletian a whole army of Christian soldiers suffered the martyr’s death at Acaunum in the Swiss Alps. His brief prose narrative had a rich reception which manifests itself in various hardly known poetic paraphrases. The versifications of Venantius Fortunatus, Walafrid Strabo, and Sigebert of Gembloux are analysed regarding their poetic tec…
Tradition and Innovation: The Transformation of Classical Literary Genres in Christian Late Antiquity
This chapter examines the notion of early Christian literature as an amalgamation of old and new forms and concepts. This chimes with the modern definition of literary genres as open systems with fluid boundaries, consisting of a set of characteristics which can overlap; thus, one work can potentially be classified under more than just one literary genre. The principles advocated in modern literary theory, especially ‘family resemblance’ and part…
How Far Can Sainthood Go? St Martin of Tours in Two Hagiographical Epics of Late Antiquity
Although recent research in particular has, under the significant influence of Peter Brown, given an increasing amount of attention to the phenomenon of the ‘holy man’ and ‘holy woman’ in late antiquity, the focus has been primarily on socio-historical aspects. The hagiographic epic of Latin late antiquity has so far been ignored in most investigations of hagiography. In order to explain the rich and as yet nearly unexplored dimension of this par…
Christianity as Decadence or Progress in Pseudo-Hilary’s Paraphrastic Verse Summary of the History of Salvation
Christianity favours a linear model of historical development, and has therefore an inherent interest in the notions of progress and decadence. Late antique Christianity partly takes inspiration from pagan classical models. But its archetypal textual matrix to elucidate the specifically Christian explanation of the purpose and meaning of history and the world is the creation narrative in the biblical book of Genesis which can be understood as an …
Jesus Christ and Dionysus: Rewriting Euripides in the Byzantine Cento Christus Patiens
The cento Christus patiens takes about one-third of its c.2,600 iambic trimeters from tragedies by Euripides, telling in dramatic form the story of Christ’s Passion, death, and resurrection. This chapter argues that for metrical and lexical reasons the cento’s much disputed authorship has to be decided against Gregory of Nazianzus and in favour of a twelfth-century Byzantine author. An analysis of the adaptation of the Euripidean verses demonstra…
Culture as Curse or Blessing? Prudentius and Avitus on the Origins of Culture
The theories about the origins of culture discussed in this chapter are instances of a way of systematically thinking about the nature of culture that was developed in classical times, either in verse or in prose. In such so-called foundation narratives, the origins of culture can be explained either in a mythological or a rationalizing fashion. Early Christianity also engaged with these lines of thought, demonstrated in this chapter by looking a…
Conclusion: Authority as a Key to Understanding Early Christian Poetry
The conclusion highlights authority as a key for understanding early Christian poetry, predominantly focusing on the Latin West. Ancient poetry in general made the claim of divine inspiration, thus deriving authority from a supernatural source. Accordingly, it based the validity of its message on a foundation beyond argument, which has consequences both for the relationship between poets and their poems, as well as between poems and their readers…
The Test Case of Epic Poetry in Late Antiquity
This chapter examines how epic, considered the grandest of all classical literary genres, was transformed in late antiquity in order to make its cultural potential serve (not only) Christian ends. The rich spectrum of possible uses for the epic genre is illustrated through concrete examples organized into five (not necessarily exhaustive) types: (1) Mythological epic: Dracontius, Medea (Romulea 10); (2) (Pagan) panegyric epic: Claudian, De Bello …
Sex and Salvation in the Vergilian Cento of the Fourth Century
In a cento, a writer uses fragments from texts of canonical authors (Genette’s hypotext) taken out of their original context to create a new work (Genette’s hypertext), which one could call ‘literary patchwork’. This chapter argues innovatively to differentiate between the predominantly parodical aim of pagan centos and the predominantly exegetical aim of Christian centos, and illustrates the implications and consequences of this assumption by an…
The Baptized Muse: Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority
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 morally corrupting (because of its deceitful mythological content) and damaging for th…
Handbuch der Bibelhermeneutiken: Von Origenes bis zur Gegenwart
Das HBH umfasst ca. 90 deutschsprachige, englische und franzosische Beitrage und wird von einem internationalen und interkonfessionellen Herausgebergremium verantwortet. Bibelhermeneutik als die Theorie und Methodik der Auslegung der zweiteiligen christlichen Bibel ist gegenwartig durch eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher kultureller, konfessioneller und theologischer Ansatze bestimmt und stellt ein wichtiges Forum internationaler Theologie dar. In d…
Christianity and Authority in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of the Concept of Auctoritas
Der Fall Roms und seine Wiederauferstehungen in Antike und Mittelalter
This collection of essays analyzes the construction of the “fall” of Rome from a range of perspectives native to different disciplines. Subjects addressed include comparable discourses dating from the earlier history of Rome, the perception of this historical moment by writers living at the time it occurred, and its reception in Byzantium and Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
Augustine beyond the Book: Intermediality, Transmediality and Reception
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is arguably the most influential thinker and Latin author of the Early Christian period. His widespread legacy has been explored to date only in part, and largely with respect to his textual reception. This interdisciplinary volume attempts to redress this emphasis with a set of analyses of Augustine's impact in the visual arts, drama, devotional practices, music, the science-faith debate and psychotherapy. The includ…
Patristic Tradition and Intellectual Paradigms in the 17th Century
Using selected paradigms (comparative literature, encyclopaediae, biblical hermeneutics, interdenominational conflict, philology, philosophical argumentation), the articles in this volume not only provide a qualitative evaluation of patristic quotations in the 17th century but also focus on the ways in which an altered understanding of patristic texts was linked to the changed conditions under which they were read.
Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and Functions of Biblical Commentaries
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Basil and Ambrose on Genesis Augustine on Genesis John Philoponus on Genesis Conclusions Bibliographical Note
Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The Encounter between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation
This volume investigates various exegetical possibilities in Christian Latin poetry during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In the Latin West poetry was mainly associated with the powerful pagan tradition of writers like Vergil and Ovid, and by many poetry was considered to tell lies and provide mere entertainment potentially corrupting the soul. Therefore, Christians initially had reservations about this genre and believed it to be incompatib…
Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The Encounter Between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation (Supplements to Vigiliae … of Early Christian Life and Language)
Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The Encounter between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation
Statius' Thebaid and the Legacy of Vergil's Aeneid
The Baptized Muse: Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority
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 morally corrupting (because of its deceitful mythological content) and damaging for th…
Statius' Thebaid and the Legacy of Vergil's Aeneid
Statius' Thebaid and the Legacy of Vergil's Aeneid
Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The Encounter between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation
This volume investigates various exegetical possibilities in Christian Latin poetry during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In the Latin West poetry was mainly associated with the powerful pagan tradition of writers like Vergil and Ovid, and by many poetry was considered to tell lies and provide mere entertainment potentially corrupting the soul. Therefore, Christians initially had reservations about this genre and believed it to be incompatib…
Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The Encounter Between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation (Supplements to Vigiliae … of Early Christian Life and Language)
Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The Encounter between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation
Exegesis without End: Forms, Methods, and Functions of Biblical Commentaries
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Basil and Ambrose on Genesis Augustine on Genesis John Philoponus on Genesis Conclusions Bibliographical Note
Patristic Tradition and Intellectual Paradigms in the 17th Century
Using selected paradigms (comparative literature, encyclopaediae, biblical hermeneutics, interdenominational conflict, philology, philosophical argumentation), the articles in this volume not only provide a qualitative evaluation of patristic quotations in the 17th century but also focus on the ways in which an altered understanding of patristic texts was linked to the changed conditions under which they were read.
Augustine beyond the Book: Intermediality, Transmediality and Reception
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is arguably the most influential thinker and Latin author of the Early Christian period. His widespread legacy has been explored to date only in part, and largely with respect to his textual reception. This interdisciplinary volume attempts to redress this emphasis with a set of analyses of Augustine's impact in the visual arts, drama, devotional practices, music, the science-faith debate and psychotherapy. The includ…
Der Fall Roms und seine Wiederauferstehungen in Antike und Mittelalter
This collection of essays analyzes the construction of the “fall” of Rome from a range of perspectives native to different disciplines. Subjects addressed include comparable discourses dating from the earlier history of Rome, the perception of this historical moment by writers living at the time it occurred, and its reception in Byzantium and Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
Christianity and Authority in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of the Concept of Auctoritas
Handbuch der Bibelhermeneutiken: Von Origenes bis zur Gegenwart
Das HBH umfasst ca. 90 deutschsprachige, englische und franzosische Beitrage und wird von einem internationalen und interkonfessionellen Herausgebergremium verantwortet. Bibelhermeneutik als die Theorie und Methodik der Auslegung der zweiteiligen christlichen Bibel ist gegenwartig durch eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher kultureller, konfessioneller und theologischer Ansatze bestimmt und stellt ein wichtiges Forum internationaler Theologie dar. In d…
Reappropriation and Disavowal: Pagan and Christian Authorities in Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus
Two rivalling traditions constituted the self-awareness of Christian intellectuals up to the sixth century: (1) the (originally pagan) tradition of education and knowledge as represented by the liberal arts; (2) a Christian tradition of prophetical truth as conveyed by the Scriptures which surpasses all human knowledge. This is illustrated by Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus, two representative figures of the sixth century, a time when classi…
Versifying Authoritative Prose: Poetical Paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyon by Venantius Fortunatus, Walafrid Strabo, and Sigebert of Gembloux
The fourth-century Eucherius narrates in his Passio Acaunensium Martyrum that during the persecution under Diocletian a whole army of Christian soldiers suffered the martyr’s death at Acaunum in the Swiss Alps. His brief prose narrative had a rich reception which manifests itself in various hardly known poetic paraphrases. The versifications of Venantius Fortunatus, Walafrid Strabo, and Sigebert of Gembloux are analysed regarding their poetic tec…
Tradition and Innovation: The Transformation of Classical Literary Genres in Christian Late Antiquity
This chapter examines the notion of early Christian literature as an amalgamation of old and new forms and concepts. This chimes with the modern definition of literary genres as open systems with fluid boundaries, consisting of a set of characteristics which can overlap; thus, one work can potentially be classified under more than just one literary genre. The principles advocated in modern literary theory, especially ‘family resemblance’ and part…
How Far Can Sainthood Go? St Martin of Tours in Two Hagiographical Epics of Late Antiquity
Although recent research in particular has, under the significant influence of Peter Brown, given an increasing amount of attention to the phenomenon of the ‘holy man’ and ‘holy woman’ in late antiquity, the focus has been primarily on socio-historical aspects. The hagiographic epic of Latin late antiquity has so far been ignored in most investigations of hagiography. In order to explain the rich and as yet nearly unexplored dimension of this par…
Christianity as Decadence or Progress in Pseudo-Hilary’s Paraphrastic Verse Summary of the History of Salvation
Christianity favours a linear model of historical development, and has therefore an inherent interest in the notions of progress and decadence. Late antique Christianity partly takes inspiration from pagan classical models. But its archetypal textual matrix to elucidate the specifically Christian explanation of the purpose and meaning of history and the world is the creation narrative in the biblical book of Genesis which can be understood as an …
Jesus Christ and Dionysus: Rewriting Euripides in the Byzantine Cento Christus Patiens
The cento Christus patiens takes about one-third of its c.2,600 iambic trimeters from tragedies by Euripides, telling in dramatic form the story of Christ’s Passion, death, and resurrection. This chapter argues that for metrical and lexical reasons the cento’s much disputed authorship has to be decided against Gregory of Nazianzus and in favour of a twelfth-century Byzantine author. An analysis of the adaptation of the Euripidean verses demonstra…
Culture as Curse or Blessing? Prudentius and Avitus on the Origins of Culture
The theories about the origins of culture discussed in this chapter are instances of a way of systematically thinking about the nature of culture that was developed in classical times, either in verse or in prose. In such so-called foundation narratives, the origins of culture can be explained either in a mythological or a rationalizing fashion. Early Christianity also engaged with these lines of thought, demonstrated in this chapter by looking a…
Conclusion: Authority as a Key to Understanding Early Christian Poetry
The conclusion highlights authority as a key for understanding early Christian poetry, predominantly focusing on the Latin West. Ancient poetry in general made the claim of divine inspiration, thus deriving authority from a supernatural source. Accordingly, it based the validity of its message on a foundation beyond argument, which has consequences both for the relationship between poets and their poems, as well as between poems and their readers…
The Test Case of Epic Poetry in Late Antiquity
This chapter examines how epic, considered the grandest of all classical literary genres, was transformed in late antiquity in order to make its cultural potential serve (not only) Christian ends. The rich spectrum of possible uses for the epic genre is illustrated through concrete examples organized into five (not necessarily exhaustive) types: (1) Mythological epic: Dracontius, Medea (Romulea 10); (2) (Pagan) panegyric epic: Claudian, De Bello …
Sex and Salvation in the Vergilian Cento of the Fourth Century
In a cento, a writer uses fragments from texts of canonical authors (Genette’s hypotext) taken out of their original context to create a new work (Genette’s hypertext), which one could call ‘literary patchwork’. This chapter argues innovatively to differentiate between the predominantly parodical aim of pagan centos and the predominantly exegetical aim of Christian centos, and illustrates the implications and consequences of this assumption by an…
The Baptized Muse: Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority
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 morally corrupting (because of its deceitful mythological content) and damaging for th…
Eschatology in Antiquity: Forms and Functions: Forms and Functions
This articles discusses the use of apocalyptic sources and an eschatological perspective in Jewish-Christian debates in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. It relies on the evidence of unpublished Armenian texts, both translated/adapted and original compositions in that language. It argues that this type of sources allow us to discern the transfer of ideas and topoi between various religions communities in Late Antique eastern Mediterranean soc…
Eschatology in Antiquity: Forms and Functions
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