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Recycled Wisdom: Maxims and Meaning Making in Late Antique and Medieval Christianity
Recycled Wisdom: Maxims and Meaning Making in Late Antique and Medieval Christianity
Recycled Wisdom: Maxims and Meaning Making in Late Antique and Medieval Christianity

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211153019
ISBN  
9798384493020
DDC  
930
저자명  
Domach, Zachary Matthew.
서명/저자  
Recycled Wisdom: Maxims and Meaning Making in Late Antique and Medieval Christianity
발행사항  
[Sl] : Columbia University, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
626 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Cameron, Euan.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약Maxims, proverbs, and other forms of pithy sayings are sprinkled throughout ancient and medieval literature; polysemous and manipulable by nature, they serve as communicative tools whose precise meaning and function shifts from context to context. My dissertation explores how late antique and medieval Christians capitalized on the flexible forms of Greek and Latin aphorisms to negotiate and construct what it meant to be a Christian. Using theories and methods developed in the fields of folklore, linguistic anthropology, and ethno- and sociolinguistics, I investigate three examples in which Christians revised and reused wisdom in new contexts. First, I document the proverbial concept of gathering something useful from somewhere dangerous as expressed in sayings like "to pluck a rose from among thorns" and "to gather gold from shit," charting how it originally went viral in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, remained in vogue well into the Middle Ages, and continued to evolve in meaning throughout its usage. I then analyze the Sentences of Sextus, a second-century collection of Greek maxims assembled from various Pythagorean aphorisms and sayings of Jesus. Whereas previous scholarship has focused on the authorship, content, and structure of the Sentences, I study the new meanings, functions, and forms the collection acquired as it underwent processes of translation, transcription, epitomization, excerption, and quotation. The text's gnomic format and armchair morality contributed not only to its centuried popularity and widespread readership, but also to the dispersion of many of its individual sayings. In particular, I consider the extensive and unstudied reception of the Sentences of Sextus within the mid-ninth-century legal forgeries known as the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals. I show that the Sextine elements reveal the presence of recurring textual units across the Decretals and offer new insights regarding Pseudo-Isidore's compositional method-a method that, in many ways, parallels the Sentences' recycling of Pythagorean and biblical material. Ultimately, my project models how wisdom-centered investigations of late antique and medieval literature lead to new understandings of the craftsmanship of individual authors as well as to deeper understandings of the time and its culture.
일반주제명  
Ancient history
일반주제명  
Medieval history
일반주제명  
Folklore
키워드  
Christianity
키워드  
False decretals
키워드  
Pseudo-Isidore
키워드  
Wisdom literature
키워드  
Sentences of Sextus
기타저자  
Columbia University Religion
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
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