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Prudentius, Spain, and late antique Christianity : poetry, visual culture, and the cult of martyrs / Paula Hershkowitz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Cambridge University Press 2017Description: 254 pISBN:
  • 9781107149601 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 871/.0109
Contents:
An introduction to Prudentius: A Spanish poet for the martyrs -- Prudentius' audience: society and religious belief in late antique Hispania -- The Peristephanon and the martyr cults in Roman Spain -- Visual culture and martyrs: Prudentius, painter of pictures in words -- Prudentius' poetry in the context of the late antique visual culture of Hispania - An epilogue for a Christian poet -- Appendix: Myths in Prudentius' poems and Spanish mosaics."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to Prudentius: A Spanish poet for the martyrs -- Prudentius' audience: society and religious belief in late antique Hispania -- The Peristephanon and the martyr cults in Roman Spain -- Visual culture and martyrs: Prudentius, painter of pictures in words -- Prudentius' poetry in the context of the late antique visual culture of Hispania - An epilogue for a Christian poet -- Appendix: Myths in Prudentius' poems and Spanish mosaics."

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