HAGIOGRAPHY
Oral exam: the test must ascertain the ability to clearly present the topics faced during the course and to comment on the texts with an appropriate specialist lexicon.
Mastery of critical tools and awareness needed to set up and conduct research in the field of hagiography. Direct knowledge of hagiographic texts with analysis of language and different themes.
Research repertoires and survey tools will be illustrated.
Reading and commenting on Hieronymian hagiographic passages.
A.Monaci Castagno, L’agiografia cristiana antica. Testi, contesti, pubblico, Editrice Morcelliana, Brescia 2010.
During the lessons, further bibliography will be indicated and illustrated and useful materials will be available to follow the course.
For non-attending students:
Vita di Martino, Vita di Ilarione, In memoria di Paola, Introduzione di Ch. Mohrmann, Testo critico e commento di A.A.R. Bastiaensen e J.W. Smit, Traduzioni di L. Canali - C. Moreschini, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla , Mondadori, Milano 1983, pp. IX-LXI; 69-237; 291-383;
Or
S. Gerolamo, Vite degli eremiti Paolo,Ilarione e Malco, a cura di B. Degorski, Testi Patristici, Città Nuova, Roma 1996;
Or
Jérôme, Trois vies de moines (Paul, Malchus, Hilarion), Texte critique d’E. M. Morales, traduction de P. Leclerc, Paris, 2007, Éd. du Cerf, Sources chrétiennes 508, Sources Chretiennes 508, Paris 2007;
Or
Jerome’s Epitaph on Paula. A Commentary on the Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae, with an Introduction, Text, and Translation, Ed. by A. Cain, Oxford Early Christian Texts, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013.
Lectures with in-dept seminar
Lessons’ days.
Or by appointment: mail piredda@uniss.it ; mobile 3406735744.