The Legend of Diocletian: "Naming and Framing" Diocletian in Coptic Hagiography

In the more than seventeen hundred years that passed since he was proclaimed emperor of the Roman Empire, different stories about Diocletian have provided different images of the emperor. The writers of "passions", who tell us about the martyrs who died, or allegedly died, during the Diocl...

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Main Author: Hidding, Aaltje 1991- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2024
In: Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
Year: 2024, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 515-543
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Diokletian, Römisches Reich, Kaiser 230-305 / Hagiography / Christian persecution / Coptic Church / Legend (motif) / Discourse analysis
IxTheo Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KBL Near East and North Africa
KCD Hagiography; saints
KDF Orthodox Church
Further subjects:B Cognitive Discourse Analysis
B Hagiography
B Diocletian
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