Narrating Relationships in Holy Lives from the first millennium AD
Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter via Zoom, 12th July 2021
Monday 12th July 2021: 14.15- 19.30 in BST (GMT+1)
14.15-14.30 Introduction: Alice van den Bosch & Becca Grose
14.30-15.00 Christa Gray (Reading) “Faith and friendship: other lives in Jerome’s hagiography” (Chair: Richard Flower, Exeter)
15.00-15.50 Panel 1: Relationships in Holy Lives (chair: Emma Loosley, Exeter)
Stavroula Constantinou (Cyprus) “Narrating Friendship in Byzantine Hagiography”
Edmund Hayes (Nijmegen) “Begetting the Imam: Family and Procreation in Narratives of the Twelver Mahdi”
(30 mins break)
16.20-17.35 Panel 2: Narrators and narrative choices in Holy Lives (chair: Morwenna Ludlow, Exeter)
Nic Baker-Brian (Cardiff) “Is there a Narrator Here? The Role of Narrative and Narration in Manichaean Kephalaia”
Chontel Syfox (Wisconsin-Madison) “Rewriting Leah: The Feminine Ideal in the Book of Jubilees”
Jillian Stinchcomb (Brandeis) “Narrating the visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon’s Court in Late Antique Sources”
(30 mins break)
18.05-18.35 Christian Sahner (Oxford) “How to construct a holy life in the early Islamic period” (Chair: István Kristó-Nagy, Exeter)
18.35-19.20 Roundtable. Host: Arietta Papaconstantinou (Reading)
(Respondent: Jennifer Barry, Mary Washington))
Organisers: Alice van den Bosch (Exeter) & Becca Grose (Reading & Exeter)
Please contact the organisers at narratingholylives@gmail.com if you have any questions about the event. or if you would like to enquire about attendance.
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