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Ausgabe:

Dezember/2022

Spalte:

1178–1179

Kategorie:

Altertumswissenschaft

Autor/Hrsg.:

Elm, Eva, and Nicole Hartmann [Eds.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Demons in Late Antiquity. Their Perception and Transformation in Different Literary Genres.

Verlag:

Berlin u. a.: De Gruyter 2020. VI, 176 S. m. 5 Abb. = Transformationen der Antike, 54. Geb. EUR 79,95. ISBN 9783110626728.

Rezensent:

Sofia Bianchi Mancini

The volume edited by E. Elm and N. Hartmann is a collection of eight insightful articles on the representation of demons in various literary genres of late antiquity that stems from the 2015 international conference »The Perception of Demons in Different Literary Genres in Late Antiquity«, which attempted to tackle the almost neglected issues of how literary genres influenced the way late antique authors depicted demons and whether particular narrative representations of demonic beings were typical of certain genres or religious contexts (7). Focusing on the literary aspects of their depictions, the conference stressed the social facets of this literary production by asking »how do notions of demons function in the genres and the particular social contexts in which they were pro-duced ...


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