Abstract
This article explores how saints are textually constructed in two Late Antique hagiographic collections, the Lausiac History of Palladius of Galatia and the Historia Religiosa of Theodoret of Cyrrhus. In particular, it relates narrative techniques applied in each work to the authors' purposes and agendas. The paper explores how Late Antique bishops as authors shaped power dynamics that manipulated, defended, and glorified the “Holy Men” under their episcopal supervision, creating an idealized type of asceticism that they could more easily control.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14305/jn.29975174.15.1.2
Recommended Citation
Cole, Andrew
(2024)
"Pooping in Public: Syrian and Egyptian Desert Fathers as Textual Constructs,"
Chronos: Vol. 15, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14305/jn.29975174.15.1.2
Available at:
https://surface.syr.edu/chronos/vol15/iss1/6