Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity

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Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map of Late Fourth-Century Hispania -- 1 An Introduction to Prudentius: A Spanish Poet for the Martyrs -- Methodology and Sources -- Prudentius on Himself -- The Hispania of Prudentius: Historical Context -- Book Structure -- 2 Prudentius' Audience -- Identifying the Audience of the Villa-Poet -- Paideia in Hispania: A Socio-Cultural Network -- Christianity and Villa-Based Communities -- 3 The Peristephanon and the Martyr Cults in Roman Spain -- The Establishment of the Martyr Cults -- The Peristephanon Poems: The Saints of Hispania -- The Peristephanon Poems: Italy and Beyond -- Martyrs in Hispania: Evidential Texts and Material Culture -- 4 Visual Culture and Martyrs -- Prudentius at the Tomb of Cassian -- Prudentius at the Tomb of Hippolytus -- Pictures Painted in Words -- The Actuality of the Martyr Paintings -- 5 Prudentius' Poetry in the Context of the Late Antique Visual Culture of Hispania -- A Clash of Visual Cultures -- The Visual Culture of the Roman Elite -- Christian Iconography in Prudentius' Hispania -- How Prudentius 'Saw' the Martyr Images: Visual Experience to Written Text -- 'Seeing' the Martyrs in Hispania: Written Text to Visual Experience -- 6 An Epilogue for a Christian Poet -- Appendix Myths in Prudentius' Poems and Spanish Mosaics -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index