"Γάλα ἀντὶ αἵματος"-An Unwonted Hagiographic Topos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4313872 |
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| Authors | Dragoş Boicu (0000-0002-5095-3390, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 613 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13070613 |
| OpenAlex | W4283806292 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Some Christian texts, and especially hagiographic and hymnographic ones, record a miraculous phenomenon at the violent deaths of several martyrs: from the beheaded bodies, milk flows instead of blood. After a superficial reading of the biographical passages in the synaxaria and iambic stichoi recorded in the Menaia, we can identify at least ten such cases, among which we find well-known saints, such as Apostle Paul and St. Katherine. This article attempts to revisit this unwonted topos of Christian literature, and to list its occurrences in the liturgical texts of the Orthodox Church and Acta Sanctorum
Apostle · Art · Iambic pentameter · Linguistics · Literature · Phenomenon · Poetry · Theology · Topos theory · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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