Search for dissertations about: "Late Antiquity"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words Late Antiquity.

  2. 6. Reading the Dream Text: A Nexus between Dreams and Texts in the Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity

    Author : Erik Alvstad; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dreams; rabbinic Judaism; Late Antiquity; Babylonian Talmud; Palestinian Talmud; Midrash; Talmudic Dreambook Bavli Berakhot 55a-57b ; text-centred community; oneiric discourse; dream-text nexus; dream interpretation; dream narrative; oneiric reading; catalogue of dream omina; dream ritual; dream prayer;

    Abstract : This study deals with conceptions and practices related to dreams in early rabbinic Judaism. One aspect of the Jewish dream culture in particular is considered, viz. the tendency evinced in the rabbinic literature of Late Antiquity to associate dreams and texts with each other. READ MORE

  4. 7. Pagan Pasts, Christian Futures: Memory Manipulation and Christianisation in the Cities of Western Asia Minor

    Author : Irene Selsvold; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Christianisation; Late Antiquity; materiality; memory; Asia Minor; Aphrodisias; Hierapolis; Ephesus; urban archaeology; Roman religion; early Christianity;

    Abstract : Religion has always impacted how we structure the physical world around us, and the Roman world was no exception. Roman cities were constructed and shaped around religious life and religious practices. Religious art was omnipresent, and religious architecture monumental. READ MORE

  5. 8. Reading John Climacus: Rhetorical Argumentation, Literary Convention and the Tradition of Monastic Formation

    Author : Henrik Rydell Johnsén; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hermogenes; Late Antiquity; Early Christianity; Sinai; rhetoric; cardinal vices; moral formation; John Climacus; monasticism; Religious Studies and Theology; Evagrius Ponticus; progymnasmata; Seneca; Apophthegmata Patrum; Plutarch; Religion och teologi;

    Abstract : This thesis offers an investigation of the literary form and the literary composition of The Ladder by John Climacus, as well as a study of how the author uses the tradition to form his reader. Besides a brief introduction with a survey of the previous research, the study comprises four chapters. READ MORE

  6. 9. Sketching the Invisible : Patterns of Church and City in Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Philotheos Historia

    Author : Andreas Westergren; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Late Antiquity; biography; hagiography; panegyric; asceticism; monasticism; Syria; Antioch; Symeon the Stylite; pilgrimage; relics; cult of the saints; civic ideals; invention of tradition; the role of the bishop; ecclesiology; sacralization; christianization; philosophy; Neoplatonism; Libanius; Dionysius Areopagita;

    Abstract : The fundamental question in this work concerns the ideal relation between asceticism and society in a 5th c. writing (C.E.), the Philotheos Historia (PH), written in elaborate Greek by the learned bishop of Cyrrhus, Theodoret. READ MORE

  7. 10. Virginity Recast : Romanos and the Mother of God

    Author : Thomas Arentzen; Samuel Rubenson; Ingela Nilsson; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Saint 6th cent; Romanus Melodus; Hymns; Greek Byzantine ; Virgin Mary – History of doctrines – 030–600; Virgin Mary – Annunciation; Virgin Mary – veneration; Bible – use in hymns; Akathists; Hymns – Theology; Theotokos; Nativity; Byzantine rite – Liturgy; Kontakion; Mariology; Orthodox Eastern Church – Liturgy; Orthodox Eastern Church – Hymns; Body; Human – religious aspects – Christianity; Late Antiquity; asceticism; breast feeding; gender and sexuality issues; Justinian Era.; Romanos the Melodist; Virgin Mary; kontakion; Constantinople; hymns; Mariology; virginity;

    Abstract : The Virgin Mary has always stood out in the Christian scenery, yet in ever-changing guises. This study explores the characterization of the Virgin in the poetic works of Romanos the Melodist (ca. 490–560), the great composer of the so-called kontakion. Written for liturgical use, these dramatic songs soon became well-known and immensely popular. READ MORE