Kaiser Konstantin als Leser

Körfer, Anna-Lena

doi:10.1515/9783110657029

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Latin Literature and Material Culture

Squire,

Elsner

2024

The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature

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Latin Literature and Material Culture

Squire,

Elsner

2024

The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature

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Gender of Purple Manuscripts and the Makeup of Sacred Scriptures

Rainer

2023

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In his letters to Roman aristocratic women about the proper use of scripture, Jerome dismissed purple makeup and any adornment of books with luxurious materials as wasteful distraction from the content of the text. He contrasts makeup and precious clothing with the textual correctness of his scholarly emended manuscripts and with corporal mortification and ascetic practices. Jerome’s dismissal of the materiality and sensuality of books goes hand in hand with a binary gender model that associates the philological work upon the text and the renunciation of its adornment with male scholarship. In order for women to become equal to men through the study of scripture, Jerome extols the performance of a textual asceticism that suppresses the makeup of books and of female bodies alike. His makeup criticism is part of a larger discourse that expresses a persistent fear of a sensual engagement with the materiality of scripture in binary gender stereotypes. A close reading of the purple metaphors employed by Jerome reveals their roots in the rhetorical appraisal of eloquence and poetic language precisely through the materiality of the text.

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Catacomb Games: Reused Game Boards or Funerary Inscriptions?

Schädler

2022

Board Game Studies Journal

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Several marble slabs fashioned like game boards for XII scripta/Alea come from Christian catacombs in Rome. Often deliberately cut or fragmented, they were used as funeral slabs. The general opinion is that these game boards have found a secondary use in the funeral context. The present paper presents a critical discussion of this interpretation. The slabs differ in several details from real game boards. Moreover, the inscriptions often betray a distinctive funeral character. Game boards for this game consist of three rows of two groups of six squares, their structure thus being identical to the poetic form of a hexagram. It appears that in Late Antiquity, the hexagram was particularly popular as a formula for funerary inscriptions. Moreover, the symbolic meaning of the XII scripta/Alea game favoured its use in sepulchral contexts. It seems therefore that at least a certain number, if not most of these “game” boards, were produced as funeral slabs and never used before as game boards in the home of the living.

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Kaiser Konstantin als Leser

Abstract: Dieses Rätsel entstand in kreativer Auseinandersetzung mit den carmina Optatians. Gelöst ist es, wenn in jeder Zeile und Spalte (ohne diagonale Achsen) die Buchstaben des Wortes ‚Gitter' stehen. Die Lösung findet sich auf der letzten Seite der Arbeit.

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Latin Literature and Material Culture

Latin Literature and Material Culture

Gender of Purple Manuscripts and the Makeup of Sacred Scriptures

Catacomb Games: Reused Game Boards or Funerary Inscriptions?

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