Angelorum participes: The Cult of the Saints in Late Antique Spain
Angelorum participes: The Cult of the Saints in Late Antique Spain
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Angelorum Participes:古代西班牙晚期的圣徒崇拜
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10.1163/9789047407522_011
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2005
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Pedro Mateos Cruz
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Pedro Mateos Cruz
Critical study of the sources, both the primary evidence and the large bibliography it has generated, has made it possible to evaluate the important role of the cult of the martyrs and confessors in peninsular history, and to understand its integration into a larger Mediterranean phenomenon. Until very recently, however, the integration of the Spanish evidence into Mediterranean norms has not been at all clear: the uniqueness of the Iberian Middle Ages, the hegemony of the most conservative form of Catholicism in the modern era, and the contemporary politics of Spain and Portugal have all helped to create a vision of peninsular history as a unicum, even from its beginnings in antiquity. In order to emphasize the particularism of the Iberian peninsula, a strange local character has often been postulated, an idiosyncracy in the inhabitants of the region that exists eternally and outside time. Thus, to take two late antique examples, the truculent rhetoric of Potamius, or Prudentius’ taste for bold poetic strokes, are connected to a specifically Spanish aesthetic, a manifestation of an hispanidad meant to stress atemporal national characteristics.