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This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore narrative complexities related to fiction, such as invention, authentication, intertextuality, imagination and fictionality. Together, they represent an innovative exploration of how these concepts relate to hagiographical discourses of truth and the religious notion of belief, while paying due attention to the various factors and contexts that impact readers’ responses.

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Julie Van Pelt, Ph.D. (2019), Ghent University, is a postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish Research Council (F.W.O.). She has published various articles on Greek hagiography. Her monograph Saints in Disguise. Performance, Illusion and Truth in Early Byzantine Hagiography is forthcoming. Koen De Temmerman (PhD 2006) is Professor of Classics at Ghent University.

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