Petition and Performance in the Apologies of Justin Martyr - Couverture rigide

Cline, Brandon

 
9781463239183: Petition and Performance in the Apologies of Justin Martyr

Synopsis

Cline advances a suggestive reading of Justin Martyr's Apologies as a subjective appropriation of the forms and practices of the Roman system of petition and response. He offers an historical contextualization of the Apologies within both contemporary administrative culture and the wider literary environment, comparing the Apologies with extant Roman-era petitions, and using this comparison to shed light on Justin's transformations of the genre and their communicative significance.

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