OVERVIEW

Hagiography is the literature concerning  the saints. It begins in the first Christian centuries, with the Acts of the Martyrs, and continues to the present day. The Writing and Rewriting of a Hagiographical Narrative is functional to the religious and social needs of a historical period. Critical hagiography was born at the time of the Counter-Reformation by the Bollandist Society. The hagiographic texts are the source of inspiration for medieval artists in the representations of saints.

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with the ability to:

- to outline the 'exemplary' function of the lives of the saints during the historical-social phases of Christianity;

- identify the elements of tradition and innovation of the classical biography in the hagiographic text;

- acquire basic tools to understand the Bible and the history of its interpretation;

- recognize the biblical rewriting in the hagiographic text;

- understand the iconographic models through the biblical symbolism and its tradition;

- outline the different forms of rewriting of the hagiographic genre in European art and literature.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

Aulaweb

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The hagiographic text from the Acts of the Martyrs to the Legendae Sanctorum.

Rewriting of the hagiographic text and criteria of the critical edition.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Critical edition texts and other hagiographic material will be available on the aula web

Recommended reading:

S. BOESCH GAJANO, La santità, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995.

J. LE GOFF, Il tempo sacro dell’uomo. La “Legenda aurea” di Jacopo da Varazze , Laterza, 2012.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

SANDRA ISETTA (President)

MARGHERITA RUBINO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Tuesday, February 20, 2020

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Assessment about the acquisition of the fundamental concepts of the subject and of the ability to read and understand a hagiographic text

Exam schedule