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This dissertation demonstrates the necessity of recognizing that, in Christian traditions, martyrdom does not always require death. Challenging the current scholarly custom of marking death as a criterion of martyrdom, I investigate the attempts of early fifth-century Latin authors to make martyrdom accessible to the masses (despite the end of official persecution in the fourth century) by creating new paradigms of martyrdom that did not demand the martyr's death. Prudentius, Paulinus of Nola, and Augustine of Hippo each championed "living martyrs"—martyrs who earned their status by some other means than dying in persecution—and through rhetorical techniques, biblical realism, and outright exhortation each author sought to extend that martyrdom to their audiences, allowing their contemporaries to develop martyrdom-based worldviews to reinforce their identities as Christians. This case study proves that the concept of martyrdom is historically contingent, that it is broader than can be appreciated if we establish death as its necessary component, and that it has vast potential for deployment in self-fashioning, identity construction, and community-creation. We therefore need to atte

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Author

Diane Shane Fruchtman

Publisher

Indiana University

Published

2014

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction