The Cult of the Virgin in Late Antiquity: Religious Development and Myth-Making
The Cult of the Virgin in Late Antiquity: Religious Development and Myth-Making
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古代晚期的圣母崇拜：宗教发展与神话创造
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2004
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Averil M. Cameron
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Averil M. Cameron
有时，回顾历史是必要的，也是有用的，不是通过拼凑当代证据的通常方法，而是通过后代的眼睛来解开早期发展的谜团。这当然适用于当前的主题。我们可以自信地说，古代晚期，特别是从五世纪开始，标志着对玛丽的崇拜和崇敬的形成阶段。然而，在任何试图理清这一发展的尝试中，最令人震惊的经历之一是，我们逐渐认识到，我们的理解在多大程度上是由后来的思想、愿望和宗教议程塑造的。对这一主题的研究需要尝试处理许多文本，这些文本本身就极其难以确定日期；事实上，一些“证据”本身，至少是书面的证据，原来是由一堆后来被当作历史的传说组成的——事实上，与二十多年前我最初写这个问题时相比，我现在对这个问题的把握要小得多。
It is sometimes both necessary and useful to go backwards in history, to disentangle an earlier development not by the usual method of piecing together the contemporary evidence but by approaching it through the eyes of later generations. This is certainly true of the present subject. We can say with confidence that late antiquity, especially the period from the fifth century onwards, marked the formative stage in the growth of cult and veneration offered to Mary. Yet one of the most striking experiences in any attempt to disentangle this development is the gradual recognition of exactly how much of our understanding has been shaped by later ideas, wishes, and religious agendas. Investigation of this subject entails the attempt to deal with many texts which are in themselves extremely hard to date; and indeed some of the ‘evidence’ itself, at least the written evidence, turns out to consist of a tangle of later legend passing for history - so much so in fact that I am considerably less certain about the subject now than when I originally wrote about it over twenty years ago.