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Desiring Martyrs - Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (Hardcover)
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Desiring Martyrs - Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (Hardcover)
Series: SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit
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Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the
fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives
against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in
different places and contexts. The title "Desiring Martyrs" is
meant in two senses. First, it refers to protagonists and
antagonists of the martyrdom narratives who as literary characters
seek martyrs and the way they inscribe certain kinds of cultural
and social desire. Second, it describes the later celebration of
martyrs via narrative, martyrdom acts, monuments, inscriptions,
martyria, liturgical commemoration, pilgrimage, etc. Here there is
a cultural desire to tell or remember a particular kind of story
about the past that serves particular communal interests and goals.
By applying the spatial turn to these ancient texts the volume
seeks to advance a still nascent social geographical understanding
of emergent Christian and Jewish martyrdom. It explores how martyr
narratives engage pre-existing time-space configurations to result
in new appropriations of earlier traditions.
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